Not to be a total Eeyore but that underscores the point - Stein can draw 1000 but will get about 2% if she’s lucky on election day. Crowd size just isn’t a good metric or Bernie would have been the rats’ nominee.
Bernie totally got screwed by the DNC/Media/Hillary collusion at least to some degree. I don’t think anyone can really argue with that.
With that said, you may very well be right in the end, but I think a good percentage of the far left is incredibly upset about what happened. There are tons of them that want Hillary to lose, because they see running someone new against Trump in 2020 as a golden opportunity, whereas they’d be stuck with her for eight years if she won. They’re also pushing to get her to 5% nationally, so she can get funding in the future or something related to that.
While I don’t think she’s going to get a huge percentage of the vote nationally, it still helps us in the end. It may be higher than 2% in certain states and that could help put Trump over the top with those battles.