Stein’s campaign is right about this:
“In a democracy, no one owns your vote, candidates need to earn your vote, and the only ‘spoilers’ are the political elites who work overtime to deny a meaningful democratic choice to voters who are hungry for real choice…”
What has Jill Stein done to earn your vote, though? Viability is a big part of that. If I could snap my fingers and institute STAR voting tomorrow, we would be having a different conversation. Yes, we want better politicians and policies, but if you don’t think that the choice between Harris and Donald Fucking Trump is meaningful, then you’ve got your head entirely up your own ass.
Harris doesn’t get my vote because I owe it to the Blue Team. She gets my vote because she’s a reasonable adult running against a violent madman, and she’s the only candidate who can stop him.
Jill Stein is nothing. She’s a joke, and likely funded by Russian oligarchs hoping to help Trump.
Even at face value, the whole “candidate earns your vote!” spiel is just not how our system works.
We have two options. You can nudge the outcome a tiny bit in either direction by directly voting for one, or you can let the other voters decide for you by either abstaining or voting 3rd, but end result is red team or blue team.
It’d be ideal if one of those actually did ‘earn’ your vote, but it doesn’t always pan out that way. If you’re not an idiot, you choose the one that’s least bad.
…and this election, one of the two options is a fucking Nazi.
I think Harris actually has done plenty to earn my vote beyond the whole lesser evil schtick, but frankly my praise or complaints about her are all moot because she’s not a fucking Nazi.
Stein wants to trick people into wasting their nudge away from the Nazi. Stein is helping the Nazi. Stein can go fuck herself.
