Vote for Marina's tears, and you'll be the last one to cry.

The presidential election truly began on August 13th, less than two hours after the announcement of Eduardo Campos' death – his brother was already offering himself as Marina Silva's running mate, who, on the same day, was already starting to make her political calculations.

From then on, the media transformed Marina into the honorary widow of the deceased. For more than a week, TV, internet, radio, magazines, newspapers, and whatever else you can imagine flooded your life, reader, with images of the political widow from Campos displaying an expression of grief that only she knows how to feign.

And, as a bonus, wearing black.

For some reason that this writer never understood, Globo, Folha, Veja, and Estadão believed that Marina's surge would come at the expense of Dilma's votes and not Aécio's, because the PSB candidate was "left-wing" like the PT candidate.

Silly kids…

Marina, however, as predicted here so many times, became an immediate problem for Aécio, not for Dilma. Thus, like a vampire, she sucked the votes from the PSDB candidate until he was literally bloodless, electorally.

I can only imagine the faces of those dimwits in the corporate media when they realize the self-inflicted wound they've caused.

And so, confident in the stupidity of the electorate, the media begins to attack the very person they didn't trust – precisely because they fell for her and believed her to be "leftist" – hoping to resurrect the downed candidate.

I keep seeing, in my thoughts, the dumbfounded expression that was plastered on the faces of the self-proclaimed "experts" who infest the Brazilian press.

Now, the "brilliant," dim-witted, and foolish media barons have come up with yet another foolproof plan: to transform Dilma's mere attempt to stall political debate about her opponent's wavering proposals into vile aggression, vulgarity, and a below-the-belt blow.

They want to prevent Dilma from reacting to what Marina did in the Band debate, which happened less than a month ago, when the "little green one" (referring to Dilma) demolished her two main opponents while they cowered before the aggression of someone who had just been canonized.

Despite the facts about who started the exchange of criticism, the cover of Veja this week and those of Folha de São Paulo in recent days invented a saint crushed by the truculence of a Dilma shown as temperamental, cowardly, and all the other adjectives necessary for the caricature.

Will I need to dig up a mountain of material from the mainstream media itself acknowledging that Marina started the fight during the Band debate, or does the right-wing coup-supporting media prefer to acknowledge that Marina crying now simply for being criticized, right after attacking those who only retaliate, is nothing more than pure trickery?

How gullible is the Brazilian electorate? It has become clear that it's not as much as it seemed during Eduardo Campos's presidency.

Gradually, people took sides – more quickly siding with Marina and more slowly with Dilma – and the country became equally divided. As has been said here so many times, this election will be decided by a narrow margin, perhaps by a decimal point.

In this scenario, the election could turn into a lottery. After all, there are plenty of fools in Brazil capable of voting in tears or for fake widows who even take selfies on the coffin of their recently departed "spouse."

If the worst happens, if it is proven that the majority of the Brazilian people are suckers and if, therefore, the suckers win the presidential election, they will be the ones crying last. Very few will win in a government of bankers and media barons.