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       How can the sociological perspective help you make sense of Marcos Jr’s win?      And how can it equip you to respond as a development practitioner?      The Marcos victory hinges on a single, simple lie: that the Marcoses are not as bad as  people think they are. It would take decades before the lie became enough to propel a Marcos  back into the presidency, and as such, the family has done whatever it can to return to  Malacañang. Using the money that they had unrightfully plundered from the Filipino people,  they have put all of their resources into bending the truth to their will. If they could convince  enough people that their lies were the real truth and that the objective truth of history did not  exist, then they would have all the power before it would be formally handed to them.      For Weber, who believed in intersubjectivity and the power of an idea expanding through  time, the Marcos victory must be the most horrible perversion of his life’s work.      The thrust