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Ross Perot (1930–2019)
RIP to Ross Perot
What Might Have Been…In 1992, A Real Billionaire Almost Changed American Politics — Forever!
RIP Ross Perot. He was a Texas entrepreneurial legend. And yes, he was a REAL billionaire (unlike someone we know…).
If you read-up on the 1992 election kids, American history might have been far, far different today (and over the past few decades) had he not quickly dropped-out of (and subsequently got back-in) the 1992 presidential race — in probably the really first big incident of big-time #fakenews about his daughter (As the story goes, the Republicans tried to smear his daughter for allegedly being a lesbian and disrupt her wedding — yes, the world was a different place in 1992!). Still Ross Perot got almost 20 million votes! At one point though, he led both Bush 41 and Clinton in the polls….
An independent victory might well have disrupted the two-party duopoly and forever changed American politics…. Not that Perot might have actually fared better than another billionaire(??) had…
