It’s getting obvious.

Haven’t you noticed how some self-styled experts are raising hell over supposed errors in the book “Isang Kaibigan” written by Vice-President Inday Sara Duterte? They who have been consistently silent all this time on the revelations of the drug use of President Bongbong Marcos?

Assuming, for the sake of argument because there is none, that there are indeed errors in this book, it won’t cause any harm to children and the nation. In contrast, there is no doubt that BBM’s emerging drug habit can cause so much damage to the country and our people.

Between the unsubstantiated errors and that still undisputed addiction, the nation is better off a million times over with the former. It’s just sad that in their efforts to besmirch Vice President Inday to draw attention away from BBM, otherwise decent people virtually align themselves with a regime that threatens to surpass the reign of Marcos Sr. in terms of rapacity and greed.

Anybody who claims to have been scandalized by the book enough to post scathing criticisms against it but has never questioned – much more uttered unprintables against the rule of the narcos supports it in earnest. There is no other way to look at it.

It’s making a mountain out of the plant that goes by the same name - all in defense of this Marcos regime.

Years from now, when future generations look back to this blight in our nation’s history, few will remember the fuss over the book. But those who unashamedly and unabashedly aligned themselves with this regime will be remembered with scorn and condemnation by those who know the difference between vice and virtue, honor and opportunism, principles and compromise.

Too much fuss about this book is not an exercise in futility. In so many words, apologists of the Marcos regime have removed all doubts about where their real sentiments lie.

They say there are at least two ways to look into the window of a person’s soul: what makes that person laugh and what makes them angry.