Lighten up, Francis. Your flippant dig at Perot is unfounded. Perot had plenty of credibility, and would have likely won the election had he not dropped out and then suddenly re-entered the race with only 30 days to go.
In any event, Ross Perot tapped into some of the same angst that Trump tapped into, and many Trump supporters (who are old enough) doubtless were fans of Perot back in '92.
Vote Trump!
Sorry I upset you but being in telecommunications for 40 years allowed me to gain a different prospective of Perot. He was a brash oddball that was often not grounded in our reality.
Ross Perot had a "showplace" Data Switch downstairs on the first floor of his headquarters building for customer dog and pony shows. During the day there is not much for a technician to do but be there in the event something goes wrong. The Technician cannot remove anything from service or replace anything because of the potential customer impact.
One day the switch tech was upstairs, leaning against the wall, chatting up Perot's secretary. The tech without even thinking about it, flipped a light switch off and on. Ross Perot came running out of his office yelling, "WE'RE HAVING A BROWN-OUT, WE'RE HAVING A BROWN-OUT" in that high-pitched nasally twang. Then charged out of the suite.
The secretary and tech were left standing there in shock. She pointed out that the light switch was for Perot's office and the tech had better be in the switch room when he gets down there. The switch tech took off down the back stairs and was able to convince Perot that the brown-out had not impacted the switch at all.
This is not the kind of person I would ever want as my President. Any good manager, let alone the president of a corporation, would leave the grunt work to the technician instead of flying off half-cocked like a looney bird.
I heard this first hand from the tech several years later. He was then working at Newbridge teaching the course on the Mainstreet T-1 Channel Bank when Perot was running for President.