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In reply to the discussion: No group has done more to harm their own cause than the Green Party USA [View all]ShazzieB
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I wasn't hanging out at DU in 2016, but in the places where I was hanging out, I heard an awful lot of people claim they were voting for Jill Stein because they didn't like Trump but didn't think Hillary was good enough, either. I was amazed at the the time that so many people who claimed to despise Trump couldn't seem to grasp that the only way to keep him out of the White House was to put Hillary in.
Of course, there is no way to know who, if anyone, those people actually voted for, but there was an awful lot of that kind of talk, and that sort of thing tends to stick in people's minds, rightly or wrongly.
I have no idea how the actual numbers turned out, but if nothing else, Stein's name being on the ballot gave the Hillary haters the illusion of another option, and, imo, made it easier for them to avoid grappling with the reality that either Trump was going to be elected or Hillary was. The whole thing drove me crazy at the time and still does if I think about it too much!