Despite the pulpit from which the sermon comes (a decidedly second-line politician who was successful in Minnesota at the turn of the two millennia due to the fame gained by wrestlers in the ring and above all because proposed by the then significant Ross Perot's Reform Party), his words are important because they highlight the real impossibility of even seriously putting oneself forward in the American electoral system for a third party who intends to represent an alternative.
Should now, to begin with, overcome the procedural barriers created by Republicans and Democrats in the States to be able to be included in the ballots and also to be able to participate in television debates to which only having as much as fifteen percent approval in national polls (moreover strongly conditioned if not precisely controlled) can one have access to.
A path that practically no one has taken – even the aforementioned Texan multi-billionaire failed Ross Perot who did not even conquer a state as an independent in 1992 as the head of a movement founded ad hoc four years later – can undertake with real hopes of success.
Mauro della Porta Raffo
Honorary President of the Italy USA Foundation