2016 Postmortem

DinahMoeHum

(21,794 posts) Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:01 PM Jul 2016

Jill Stein's Ideas Are Terrible - Slate-dot-com

She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/27/jill_stein_is_not_the_savior_the_left_is_looking_for.html

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Now that Hillary Clinton has officially won the Democratic presidential nomination, chances are we're going to hear a lot more about Jill Stein. The Green Party candidate, currently polling in the low single digits nationally, has been gunning for the support of disaffected Bernie Sanders fans, urging them to “keep the revolution going” by getting behind her own long-shot White House bid. Tuesday, she was on hand at the Democratic convention to meet aggrieved Sanders delegates, some of whom formed a small crowd around her to chant, “Bernie or Jill.” Thanks to progressive grassroots rage, she may well peel off a few percentage points of the vote come the fall, when she's expected to be on the ballot in about 47 states.

Which is a pity. Because even by the standards of protest candidates, Stein—whose press team did not respond to an interview request—is an absolutely awful torchbearer for the far left.
She's a Harvard-trained physician who panders to pseudoscience.
She mangles pet policy issues.
And her cynical retelling of the past eight years has nothing to do with the reality of recorded history.
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Much more at the link:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/27/jill_stein_is_not_the_savior_the_left_is_looking_for.html

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Jill Stein's Ideas Are Terrible - Slate-dot-com (Original Post) DinahMoeHum Jul 2016 OP

an unserious party produces unserious candidates nt geek tragedy Jul 2016 #1

major anti vaxxer obamanut2012 Jul 2016 #2

Anyone who votes for that nutcase is... Spazito Jul 2016 #3

After she said in an interview that Clinton's first act in office could be to start a nuclear war TwilightZone Jul 2016 #4

Personally, I never cared for her. I wanted a Bernie candidate, and when the Greens couldn't GreenPartyVoter Jul 2016 #5

We need to disseminate this as widely as we can democrattotheend Jul 2016 #6

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

1. an unserious party produces unserious candidates nt

Reply to DinahMoeHum (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:07 PM

Jul 2016

obamanut2012

(26,080 posts)

2. major anti vaxxer

Reply to DinahMoeHum (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:10 PM

Jul 2016

nuf said

Spazito

(50,365 posts)

3. Anyone who votes for that nutcase is...

Reply to DinahMoeHum (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:11 PM

Jul 2016

the epitome of, to use the verbiage Skinner provided in his OP, ""Bitter, vindictive dead-enders who call themselves progressives but aren't voting for Hillary in November", imo.

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)

4. After she said in an interview that Clinton's first act in office could be to start a nuclear war

Reply to DinahMoeHum (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:19 PM

Jul 2016

with Russia, I knew that my prior opinion of her - that she's a grandstanding attention-seeker - was pretty much spot on.

There's a reason why she's a perpetual political loser. That anyone is taking her seriously is beyond my understanding.

GreenPartyVoter

(72,378 posts)

5. Personally, I never cared for her. I wanted a Bernie candidate, and when the Greens couldn't

Reply to DinahMoeHum (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:30 PM

Jul 2016

produce one I followed the real Bernie to the Dems. I like the Green platform and ideals, but I don't feel they always find the best candidates for President.

democrattotheend

(11,605 posts)

6. We need to disseminate this as widely as we can

Reply to DinahMoeHum (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 01:41 PM

Jul 2016

To show the holdouts that even if we didn't have a two-party system, Jill Stein really isn't so great.

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