[Rear View] It’s my party (and I’ll run if I want to)

It’s over and done, that week-long frenzy of candidates filing their candidacy certificates for the midterm elections, the triennial rite of our supposedly vibrant democracy. 

And for the first time since social media threw a monkey wrench into our values and behaviors, not to mention sleeping patterns, influencers — celebrities in their own right — are running as candidates.

One of them is Deo Balbuena, or Diwata. He has reached that level of internet fame that he now has his own Wikipedia entry...