Jill Stein gets it. Unfortunately, she had to learn the hard way.

Seven months after the election, the attacks on her presidential bid have continued.

Caitlin Johnstone points out that partisan Democrats still can't stand the idea that someone on the left ran for president and got some votes.



There’s a relentless ongoing public flagellation of not just Stein but anyone who voted for her. Even though we know their votes made no difference in the outcome of the election, mainstream pundits continue to stomp on their heads every single day, screaming “You! Will! Not! Disobey! Again!” They are not satisfied with the fact that this wonderfully wise woman, whose Green New Deal could have literally transformed America and saved the world, received only one percent of the vote. They need to make an example of her and of everyone who voted for her as well.

It's largely your fault, you imbecile https://t.co/JmXmlEc7mz — Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 2, 2017

It wasn't just the odious Rachel Maddow and deceptive John Oliver.

The entire news media establishment, from neoliberal faux progressive, to neoliberal centrist, to neoliberal right-wing, lined up against her.

US News called her 'Trump abettor'.

Vanity Fair says she handed the presidency to Trump.

Newsweek says she cost Hillary the election.

The Week called her the 2016 Ralph Nader.

And this is all since the election.

It doesn't matter that the math doesn't work.



CBS News' exit poll posed the hypothetical question of who third party voters would support if the race were only Clinton and Trump, and both Johnson and Stein supporters appeared to support Clinton over Trump by about 25 percent to 15 percent. But 55 percent of Johnson's supporters would have just sat out the election, as would 61 percent of Jill Stein supporters. According to New York Times exit polling, a whopping 63 percent of voters who declined to cast their ballot for the two major party candidates said they would have not voted at all in a two candidate race.

Partisan Democrats always start with the baseless assumption that they are entitled to your vote. They don't have to earn it because it is their privilege.

This illogical thinking doesn't apply to the vastly larger group of liberals and minorities who vote Republican, or don't vote. Only to third party voters.

As Hillary Clinton says, people who vote third party are, "the crazy third-party people.”

Having choices to vote for of people that represent your values, isn't a privilege - it's a necessary part of democracy. That's why partisan Democrats no longer support democracy.



These people openly argue that the Greens should never have run a presidential candidate, insisting that they should just focus on state and local electoral contests, despite the fact that the Democrats attack them just as ferociously in those contests, and despite the fact that running a presidential candidate is an essential component in generating party legitimacy. “No, you must let us run our fake popularity contests between our two corporatists while struggling in obscurity, unseen and unheard.”

Half of the public no longer even votes, and Democrats respond by wanting to reduce your choices even further. Legitimacy be damned.

Democrat's slanders of Stein's trip to Russia finally prompted Stein to make an ironic observation.

