My fellow voting Americans, 

We all remember Ross Perot, at least those of us who remember recent history. To recap or for people younger than 30 (go gen Z - it's time for informed voting - yay) in which case we haven't met, you're probably having a cocktail at the club and I'm drinking coffee and reading with my cat on the couch.

But here goes... 

In 1992 he ran for president and secured almost twenty percent of the votes. We were all surprised - and even proud of him for doing so well - that being the best any independent candidate has ever done in a presidential election. 

That year the democratic candidate, William Jefferson Clinton, took 32 states, including Washington DC, with 44,909,889 votes, 43% of all votes, and 370 electoral votes beating the republican candidate George Herbert Walker Bush who only took 18 states with 39,104,550 votes, 37.5% of all votes, and 168 electoral votes, breaking a three term winning streak by the republican candidates and becoming the 42nd President of the United States. The first Democrat to sit in the office in 12 years. 

The role that Ross Perot played in that election by taking 19,743,821 votes, 19.5% of all votes cast, taking no electoral votes and winning no states was not that disruptive. Perot was too far to the right to appeal to the democrats, and republicans we're more likely to stick with the more established George H.W. Bush. So basically Ross Perot's votes were leaning mostly towards the democratic side albeit the conservative side of the democratic party.

Even though it didn't really matter then it is not too much different than the role that Robert Francis Kennedy Jr is playing in this election. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr's voters would also be mostly conservative leaning democrats, but they would mostly be democrats. Which means he's going to take a lot of votes away form Biden and we need all the Democratic and undecided voters we can get. Much like the 1992 election early polling indicates that this is going to be a very close race. The then incumbent George HW Bush was expected to get more votes than he did. There were many factors contributing to the last minute upset of his campaign that led to the election of Bill Clinton. 

We all know, the truth is, the next president of the United States of America is going to be a Democrat or God forbid a Republican (much more likely the second option if RFK Jr doesn't drop out). So please, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, don't help Donald John Trump have a better chance of destroying our democracy by taking votes away from Joe Biden and therefore securing a win for Donald John Trump and his un-American MAGA party of hate and division. That's a shame.

You are a very good man and no one is saying you are not an intelligent person. So great really. The fact is though you are just not going to be president - ever. You don't have the popularity, you don't have the support and you don't have the money. So give it up. Please. For the love of democracy and God. Please, please, please give it up. Please. 

Thank you and God bless America! 

~mango