Electoral Bullshit

That's the topic of a recent column from Leo Zuckermann (seriously), who, after explaining the definition of the title's latter word to his readers, offers three examples of it ahead of the summer elections: 1) The PAN's plan to remove an expensive car tax, which would have left states with a budget hole of around $2 billion; 2) the PRI scheme to cap the interest rate banks impose on their borrowers; and 3) a PRD/PT plan to nationalize Mexico's banks. For different reasons, each of these is a profoundly misguided idea, yet, as Zuckermann points out, they all succeeded in gaining some cheers for the party that proposed them. All this calls to mind Pedro Ángel Palou's prediction from a couple of months ago in Poder:

While the country continues debating as a massacre unfolds or keeps bleeding as uncertainty reigns, however you want to see it, the Mexican partidocracy will laugh once more at the citizens, spend millions on campaigns, bite even the final reaches of the body like a power-hungry psychopathic Hannibal Lecter, and there won't be, I can assure you right now, even one important idea, not one coherent project upon which to vote.