Really? Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate in 2000, may have cost Al Gore the election. It could happen again.
If Green candidates take votes away from Democrats without providing a real alternative to Democrat policies -- which may or may not be true -- then they really are not part of the Democrat machine, but rather a very clever opponent of it. Or are they part of the Republican machine?
First off, anyone who wants to reject Hillary’s shocking level of corruption but doesn’t want to vote for Trump because the media says he’s a big meanie or whatever, I heartily encourage you to vote for Jill Stein. Look at her spray paining bulldozers! She believes in the environment! She will stop global warming!
Looking back, Nader took almost 3% of the vote, that waws all taken from Gore and that year was so close, those number could well have made a difference.
I would say that Nader had less in common with the DNC back then, than Jill Stein honestly has now. The Dems have made a hard left turn since 2000. Jill Stein strikes me as a typical bleeding heart guilty white liberal cat lady and I think she would fight right into the mainstream DNC if she didn’t call herself “Green”.
I’m not saying 3rd parties are always controlled by the major parties, I just think that in this particular election the Green party and to a larger extent the Libertarian party are just meant to pull anti-establishment voters from Trump. I don’t know if the DNC is directly involved, but wikileaks has shown us that they are directly involved in a lot of dirty tricks.