People going to Jill Stein, are probably counter-weighed by republicans going to Gary Johnson. I get the impression Gary Johnson is way more popular than Stein as of now. Really it seems as Stump said in a post yesterday, that it won't matter. Telling people what to do is just gonna annoy the shit out of them.
You mean April and may emails after Bernie spent months attacking the DNC and calling them corrupt?
I guess the DNC should be unfeeling robots at cant have opinions of a candidate that attacks them.
This is dumb. The idea that you have a bipartial institution working against you because you criticize them over process is idiotic. Being professional is fucking irrelevant to how you treat users of a system. It's completely besides the point if Bernie disliked the system or how much he contributed. The DNS serves a function, and this scapegoating is nonsensical.
Gore lost because he ran an incompetent campaign. 250,000 dems in Florida alone voted for Bush. Some people are not going to get caught up in "least worse" or "least awful". Because either candidate is unacceptable.
It's a protest vote for Hillary to move further left. And really, if you are on the left, you got every right to want more.
Her support of Netanyahu is indefisbile. It's to be apolagetic towards a man who has engaged in war crime and extortion of a people. Not committing hard enough against fracking.
She can evolve on these deal breakers on leftist climate change and foreign policy. I'd imagine that Jill Stein voters are squeezing the lemon, and want Clinton to do more. There is no imperative for them to give a fuck about her commitment to these issues.
Bernie was right in saying that it is up to Hillary to prove to these people that she is their president. Hillary is going to win. A sizeable portion of "I'm not voting for Hillary" people are going to vote for her in the end. But in the mean time I don't think protest votes are all that crazy.
It's dumb to look at it as zero sum. Stein cannot win, and most people who vote for her knows that. It's not about watching the country burn or letting Trump win. It's just saying; We're here, and we can't support this over here. That is how Politics have always worked. You got some ideals and you might or might not compromise.
It's really ignorant if you don't think a protest third party vote is not saying something. Historically it hasn't said much, because Nader got a number of votes that was insignificance to the election. Gore himself blames the process in Florida, not the Green Party.
So fuck this false that democrats keep telling themselves about how Nader cost Gore the election.
