Some may come for the entertainment. Others may come out of genuine sympathy for a fallen idol. But many join a crowd like this because it provides a venue for the discharge of accumulated resentment. What they get is not catharsis, however. The emotions are not purified so much as they are indulged.
People power imagines what life can be if people placed their destiny in their hands.
This one imagines what life would have been if their patron had not been overthrown. The only thing they have in common is Edsa. Edsa is everywhere there are people who are moved by something bigger than themselves, who find strength in their solidarity and are determined to change the circumstances of their lives. They cannot clothe their resentment with the venerable symbolism of the Edsa Shrine and expect to derive any strength from it. The magic is not in the place but in the energy that people are able to summon from within their hearts when the memory of greatness moves them.