No disrespect , but what is an MRA , as I don ' t think you mean magnetic resonance angiogram ? <| sep |> I take gh . htm contains three of my favorite ayurvedic herbs bacopa , ashwagandha and gotu kola . It also contains mucana purians that helps avoiding lethargy . <| sep |> How not he can be compared with such a fierce demagogue ? From the start of the election campaign early this year , I , as a rather informal student of historical studies , was somewhat shocked by the parallels happening even up to now A rightwing media outfit covered his election campaign with a lot of camera angles , including drones . Which would ' ve left Leni Riefenstahl envious if she ever sees this coverage in practice but at a much lower budget . ABSCBN Publishing well , yes , same company who published the late MDS ' book of colorful anecdotes came up with what ' s called the The Duterte Manifesto . Funny ? Yes . Propaganda ? Yes . Nothing else in Philippine history where presidential elections were influenced by social media , especially as cyberbullying in the vein of the Sturmabteilung mounted on those who criticized El Presidente , and that a massive campaign , whether driven by volunteers or network of bots , saturated social media , extolling him as the messiah to save the Philippines . The same unsanctioned progovernment cybermilitia is still in operation , to destroy anyone deemed a threat to the regime as well as maintaining propaganda power over Facebook . There is still yet an actual link between him or his associates and these groups . In this regime , drugs is the new communism , and human rights is seen as an impediment to national development . Hence the housetohouse searches , witchhunts in the Senate , antidrug programs demanding compliance , etc . Of course , pogroms . There is actually now a socalled Duterte Youth , led by a highly militant young man who also thinks BBM would bring greatness back once ensconced in the Palace . The preceding Aquino administration was seen , in some ways , more and more like the fragile and effete Weimar Republic of which Hitler put to the dustbin . There ' s no equivalent of the Reichstag fire , but El Presidente now has allies in the legislative , judiciary and certain cabinet posts , including law enforcement . Most of them are attack dogs , but others may soon become his most dangerous critics . Before the later split over the burial of Apo Lakay , FVR , in some ways the Paul Hindenburg of our time because he was a military man and a credible leader , he gave El Presidente his blessing during the campaign . He presents himself as a great friend to the communists . Yet his relationship with the Maoists is becoming short as the MolotovRibbentrop Pact . If he can ' t be like Hitler , then what he really is ? An agent of influence . EDIT Why I listed all these up ? Because I connected the dots and suddenly things have made sense . Because I saw historical precedents . Because my greatest vice is reading and understanding history . and nothing else scares dictators of all kinds than historians and librarians . I don ' t enjoy having our history being sanitized for the benefit of a k l e p t o m a nicnarcissisticautocratic family .