Well there you have it. Out in the open and no PC. I guess the 7000 Islands of the Phillipines liked him and voted him in. So.... I’m glad the guy is taking ownership of the problem and isn’t asking the United Nations to fix them.
This is the populist attitude in the country.
Society in the Phils is on the whole “nice” to a fault, whether it be the upper or lower class. Duterte has been acting as something of a relief valve for, well, a whole lot of pent up frustration, with poverty, corruption, crime, and inferiority complexes of all kinds.
Hence his really immense popularity. He may be an a**h***, but for now he is their a**h***.