JOHNNY GOES BACK TO SCHOOL

The picture above, taken at the Mexican Congress two days ago, is fantastic.

The guy on the left is Raúl Padilla Orozco, Congress Budget Committee Coordinator, who had exclaimed with shameful excitement a deplorable “Cool!!” when it was announced a budget cut for the next year at the Mexico´s leading public University: UNAM. On the right, UNAM´s headmaster José Ramón de la Fuente is giving him a copy of a book written by the founder of Padilla´s party, Manuel Gómez Morín, on the importance of public education.

This case is not another isolated example of neoconservative chronic ignorance but, in fact, a clear expression of this guys´ well planned political agenda.

At the same time, the way they do things clearly reveal an unhidden clumsiness that, it must be said in passing, constitutes not just their biggest stepchild but also a tremendous window of opportunity for the progressive forces.