"What we have seen over the years is that this politics of fear actually delivered everything that we were afraid of," Stein said. | Getty Jill Stein: 'Democracy needs a moral compass'

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein doesn't want voters to think a vote for her is a vote for Donald Trump.

"What we have seen over the years is that this politics of fear actually delivered everything that we were afraid of," Stein said Sunday on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "That's actually what we've gotten because we, the people, have allowed ourselves to be silenced. Democracy needs a moral compass. It needs a vision, an affirmative vision of what we are about and an agenda that we can actually put forward."


This is not the first time Stein has claimed voters should not be silenced by the "politics of fear." That has often come up — as it did in her ABC interview — in reference to the 2000 election, when, some have suggested, votes cast for Green candidate Ralph Nader hurt Democratic candidate Al Gore in an exceedingly close battle with Republican George W. Bush.

During her acceptance speech for the Green Party nomination earlier this month, the 66-year-old said "lesser of two evils" is the "losing strategy" and said Hillary Clinton was not the solution to Donald Trump.

Appealing to the millennial vote, Stein said they are "locked out of a future right now."

"They are locked in debt. They don't have jobs, and they are looking at a climate which is unraveling on their watch," Stein said, using examples of the recent flooding in Louisiana, which is being labeled as worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy, and the wildfires in California.

Stein also said her main platform is an emergency job program that will address climate change and create an emergency transition to 100 percent renewable energy.

Climate change was one of Bernie Sanders' main concerns during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Since Sanders ended his campaign, Stein has tried to latch on to his voters.

"I'm in this running not only as a medical doctor practicing political medicine, because we've got to heal our sick political system, but I'm in this as a mother very concerned about the future that our younger generation doesn't have," she said. "And that's who's mostly paying attention."