It's a two party system. Everybody knows if you run as a third party you're merely increasing the chances that the ones furthest from you politically will be elected.

It's impossible for a third party candidate to be running for president in the US in good faith unless they're complete fucking idiots with no idea how the political system works.

Jill Stein knows how the system works. So obviously she's not acting in good faith.

Simple as that.

When I was a teenager and foolish and a republican, we campaigned for the green party because we thought we could trick democrats into voting green but we'd never get them to vote republican. make of that what you will.

It makes total sense for Russia to make Jill Stein a Russian asset because it neutralizes an anti-oil organization. Oil is very important to Russia’s economy so of course they don’t want any phase-out of fossil fuels.

Jill Stein is so bad that if I lived in a ranked choice voting state, I would still rank her pretty low.

Can you imagine if you campaigned against trump half as much as you campaign against progressive parties?

Reactionary people are unable to accept that some of us are socialists who have an absolute fear of more orange bad. I love where I live and planned to stay the rest of my life, but will be forced (by my own standards and fear) to leave the country if he returns to office.

Liberals are desperate to smear any threat to their existence and power. Watching it reminds me of Southerners that were desperate to cling to their 'heritage' of hate and bigotry. They didn't see it as hate and bigotry, but everyone else paying attention did

I think Ralph Nader killed it when he helped get us Bush and the war criminals.

Jill just figured out the Putin would pay to reanimate its corpse.

The Green Party is mostly a joke anyway.

She's going to spoil the election for Harris libs! There's nothing you can do about it, except stop your genocide is Gaza.

"Waaah. They are spoiling all my hard work of selling out the people."

What a bad article. Too small to matter, but big enough to matter. Come on now, get your story straight.

It’s just large enough, however, to spoil the work of those who put in this kind of work.

The big 2 parties haven't put in more effort, they've just put in more person-hours... Because they have more people. Parties aren't more worthy of votes based solely on how many people are voting for them, that's tyranny of the majority. And if they can adapt their platforms to appeal to the small portion of undecided defectors from their primary rival party (each other), they damn sure can tailor their platform to the 100,000s that vote independent/3rd party.

Checking biases, the only other article by this contributor is explaining why it's actually A Good Thing™ that the Harris campaign doesn't explain their platform in depth... You know, like you would want a leader to do if you were subject to their rules and policies for any length of time.

Once again, the liberals are quick to assign blame for any of their shortcomings, and it's just coincidentally never their fault nor responsibility to do anything. Their primary guiding principal for decades has been to change the status quo as little as possible to ensure they can't be blamed for the changes, while accusing everyone else of destroying democracy.

If there's such a fear of third parties cleaving off votes from the Democrats, why have they never tried to mobilize similar forces on the right?

We had the Libertarians right there, before they imploded.