Every four years, parties sell us their platform as if it were a bible of solutions. They promise everything at rallies and debates, we venerate it at the ballot box with the faith of a convert, and the day after victory, the document rests in a drawer. It is the life cycle of a promise: born to be forgotten.
The source code of broken promises 💻
From a technical standpoint, an electoral platform resembles software without quality testing. It is written in haste, filled with populist patches, and never goes through a real debugging phase. Its code promises impossible functions, like an algorithm that solves poverty without RAM. When the government's operating system boots up, the platform becomes legacy: no one touches it for fear the system will crash.
The recycling bin of Congress 🗑️
The best part is that politicians keep those platforms in folders named things like promises2024_final_v2 that they never open. If the platform were software, its EULA would say: By voting, you accept that this text is decorative. The irony is that the only ones who actually read it are the interns who lay it out. Then, when you ask why it's not fulfilled, they tell you there was a compilation error. Long live the source code of democracy.