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December 1, 2023

Thirty-one years ago, an event occurred that was among the primary catalysts in the elevation into the political mainstream of the Marxist-inspired American Left.  The presidential election of 1992 marked the turning point when the American people set in motion the dynamic that has eventuated in the radical Left’s dominance of government.

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These Marxist ideologues, with their totalitarian mindset and statist convictions, have skillfully exploited an overwhelmingly self-centered and ill-educated populace, while being greatly aided by foolishly sanctimonious segments of the conservative electorate and the Republican Party.  These factors, in combination with a political system that can only function with just two major political parties, have placed the United States in its present seemingly insolvable predicaments.

The Founders of the United States were determined to diffuse political authority as much as possible in order to avoid the prospect of any faction being able to seize the reins of power.  As a parliamentary system could be more easily manipulated by those with evil intent, the founders designed a governmental system that was extraordinarily cumbersome.  The underlying foundation of the American governmental system is the concept of unprecedented power vested in quasi-independent states and a central government split into three distinct and equal branches.

As the country expanded from a small nation of 3.5 million located along the Atlantic coast to one with 330 million encompassing a continent, and from 13 to 50 states, it became increasingly clear during the first sixty years of the nation that, unlike a European parliamentary arrangement, the only way the unique American system could successfully function would be with just two dominant national political parties.

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In 1992 the United States was still an overwhelmingly right of center country.   In the six presidential elections from 1968 to 1988, the Republican candidates averaged 417 electoral votes per cycle (the Democrats 113).   Additionally, the average margin of victory per election in the popular vote for the Republican candidate exceeded 10% or an average of 8.5 million votes during this same period.

However, beginning in 1992 this trend was completely reversed.  In the eight presidential elections since 1992 to the present, the Republican candidates have averaged only 224 electoral votes per election, a precipitous drop of nearly 50%, while the Democrat candidates have averaged 314 electoral votes.  Moreover, the average margin of victory in the popular vote tally favored the Democrats by 3.9% or an average of 4.5 million votes per cycle, a reversal of nearly 14 percentage points and 13 million votes for the Republican candidates.

In 1992 the baby-boom generation was the dominant influence in the nation as the World War II generation had begun to fade into history.  Having been the beneficiaries of unprecedented peace and prosperity for nearly 45 years, many had become single issue true believers.  To these self-righteous narcissists nothing was more important than their cause — whether that issue was environmentalism, abortion on demand, drug legalization, disarmament, gay rights, social justice or a laundry list of other lifestyle concerns.    

As the Democrat party increasingly fell under the thrall of the Marxist-inspired American Left and their core strategy of the end justifying the means, the Party hierarchy came out in vocal support of all of these causes in the knowledge that these true-believers would not care about who they were voting for or the end game of permanently seizing all political power, as long as lip service was paid to their issues.  Combining these myopic groups with those wholly dependent on government, as well as the monolithic African American vote, gave the Democrat Party a significant and reliable voting base.

However, more was needed in order for the new and evolving iteration of the Democrat party to become the dominant force in a right of center America.  That was provided in 1992 by Ross Perot and the emergence of the sanctimonious Republican and conservative voters who are still determined to persist in their myopia until there is effectively no viable opposition to the Democrat party.

Ross Perot proclaimed to the world the absurd assertion that there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties because the Republican Party had not accomplished all that he, Ross Perot, demanded.   He then formed a third party which in 1992 garnered nearly 20 million votes and assured the election of Bill Clinton.