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The Bipartisan Betrayal That Began Long Before MAGA
I didn’t arrive at my disillusionment because of one politician or one movement. My frustration is rooted in something far older and far deeper — a bipartisan failure stretching back more than three decades. Long before the rise of MAGA, long before the populist realignment of the 2010s, the Republican and Democratic parties had already abandoned the American people.
I watched it happen in real time.
In 1992, Ross Perot warned the country about three existential threats:
• the unchecked flow of illegal immigration
• a national debt that had already reached $4 trillion
• the deliberate dismantling of America’s industrial base
He wasn’t speaking in abstractions. He was describing a bipartisan political class that had already chosen global interests over national ones. Perot’s message wasn’t left or right — it was a diagnosis of a system that had stopped serving its citizens. And he was right. The party system of the pre‑1990 era was already doing the very things people only began noticing decades later.
Both parties ignored him.
Both parties mocked him.
Both parties united to destroy him.
Then, both parties proceeded to prove him correct.
$36,000,000,000,000.00 later, we have no industrial base and are distracted by illegal sleeper cells. We are fools and need only look in the mirror to see where accountability should be exercised.
For years, Republicans and Democrats alike expanded the debt, outsourced the manufacturing backbone of the country, and refused to secure the border. They presided over the hollowing out of towns, the collapse of wages, and the erosion of sovereignty. The betrayal wasn’t sudden; it was incremental, methodical, and bipartisan.
So when I supported political movements in later years, it was never about personalities. It was about principles — peace, sovereignty, economic independence, and a government that answers to its citizens rather than to corporate donors, foreign interests, or entrenched bureaucracies. I believed those principles were finally being revived after decades of neglect.
But the truth is harder: the system that betrayed Americans in the 1980s and 1990s never stopped. It simply adapted. It absorbed every populist wave, every outsider challenge, every attempt at reform. And today, both major parties continue to operate from the same script — endless foreign entanglements, corporate protectionism, weaponized institutions, and a political culture that punishes dissent while rewarding obedience.
The betrayal is not new. If you blame Trump, MAGA, Obama, Biden, Bush or Clinton, you are late to the party by more than 30 years.
What we are witnessing now is not the collapse of a single movement, but the culmination of a bipartisan failure that Perot warned about in 1992 — a failure to protect the border, to pay down the debt, and to preserve the industrial strength that once made America the envy of the world.
The tragedy is not that one movement faltered.
The tragedy is that the American people have been abandoned by both parties for a generation.
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