who will you vote for? of course, bongbong marcos. bongbong marcos, the son of ferdinand marcos, the former president? yes! and dictator of the country? excuse me? please correct the word dictator. translation: | would - like to experience the good life that people were seeing when ferdinand marcos sr was still the president. we need to have that back. a man who knows about the marcos good life is americanjournalist jim laurie. he was in malacanang palace the day the family fled the country for exile in hawaii in 1986. you went into imelda s wardrobe room, and she had hundreds of designer gowns and designer dresses with the labels still on. and it was just a sense that, in a very, very poor country, it just somehow seemed obscene. more than three decades later, whatjim laurie witnessed is repeatedly questioned online. they will say things like,