From Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post:
As a longtime progressive, who has been a major supporter of human and economic rights and a strong opponent of greedy, profit-driven, authoritarian, anti-democracy, and pro-corporate reactionary forces, I was initially VERY attracted to the candidacy of Bernie Sanders to be our next President. I supported his choice of running for the Democratic Party’s nomination, as I believed (and still do) of that being the only pragmatic method to win the White House. For the sole way for a person to be elected President is by availing him or herself of the support and services of millions of party volunteers and using every available resource that major party has at its disposal to get the job done. Bernie eventually lost that coveted nomination to Hillary Clinton by a whisker, and so I decided to support her candidacy, as many of the tenets of Bernie’s progressive platform were successfully entered into the new Democratic Party’s planks. Some of Bernie’s supporters did not agree and found that supporting Clinton was far too unpalatable for them, and so they began to drift toward either Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, or to Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein. I have already devoted two blogposts to describing what a disastrous mistake voting for Gary Johnson would be, so in this post I will show what a mistake voting for Jill Stein would be.
On the surface one might assume that voting for a progressive like Dr. Stein would be a perfectly natural choice for an ex-Bernie Sanders supporter. However, by doing a closer and deeper examination of Dr. Stein, it soon becomes clear that she is NOT suitable for the presidency.