That's true but I think most people who considered themselves leftists -- certainly the activists I knew -- didn't pull that one.
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Nobody who was really engaged that way had any illusions about Hillary (or Obama for that matter). Many people a decade ago were pushing+
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+for more progressive democrats, but that effort flagged after the 2010 losses, partly bc of the Dem leadership, but there were other issues
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect
You know that. I know that. A lot of people who only started paying attn to politics because Bernie Sanders seemed cool don't know that.
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Then there are the kind of diehards who actually considered Jill Stein a better candidate than Clinton. They definitely don't know that.
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Replying to @SusieusMaximus @arthur_affect
Well, better candidate is relative. But certainly from a strategic voting perspective she wasn't.
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @SusieusMaximus
Jill Stein is arguably closer to my political beliefs but I wouldn't wave a magic wand and make her president if I could
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Because she's not actually good at things
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(And her policy preferences appear dangerously unstable)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus
OTOH a quarter of the voters went for an ornage-skinned omnibigot who could very well end civilization, so...
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Well yes if it were her vs Trump of course I'd pick her but that goes for the whole upper 75th percentile of the human race
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus
See what I mean? :-) either way I don't take the Greens seriously nationally. (Tho they've mounted some decent campaigns here and there)
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That said folks like Stein are symptomatic of political "rules lawyering" that can't believe the answer "it's complicated." (Eg Brexit)
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