Jill Stein is just part of the machine. She “opposes” the establishment without actually offering much real criticism of them. It’s her job. It’s the role the DNC wants her to play.
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?