It's true and you're right. What I meant to stress was the "major party" thing, because Clinton should have this spotlight right now, but Stein seems to commit her existence to discredit Clinton's presence on the 2016 ballot by being there too and having nothing positive to say about her.
I admit it was an emotional post and I should have worded it better. I hope my overall point is still clear.
Oh I completely agreed with your post otherwise.
I just kind of reflexively do this. My cousin is a Stein voter. She's been on a tear recently about how fake it is for the media to act like Hillary is so important. "There is another woman running right now!"
I tried to explain why it's different and then got yelled at in all caps about how she's "an independent thinker going with her gut and we'll just have to agree to disagree" and hillary is really no better than trump. I probably pissed her off because the "argument" went on for about two days before a bunch of 21-24 year old friends of hers started jumping in. All with Stein rhetoric. That any military action is a war crime, that Obama is just as bad as any Republican, and they'll never vote lesser of two evils again. A couple of the people I thought that was funny... because this would be their first election.
I tried to show how this isn't a lesser evils election. But they were very adamant that it was. I just can't see how anyone can see it that way. Hills may not be a revolutionary figure, trying to maintain this stability we've had. Not evil. And then there's Trump. Campaigns on war crimes, violating the constitution, inciting hate and anger with his rhetoric. Yep. Def the air of evilness about him.
Meanwhile acting like a female candidate with a viable shot at the presidency is no big thing. "Because there's other female candidates." That have absolutely no shot at even hitting 3% nationwide! Grrr. I'm a millennial, but I really hate millennials.
