EDIT: I should clarify, by Jill Stein, I mean what her party’s official platform and policies are, as reflected by her statements in interviews

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    But every vote from the center is a vote you deny the other party.

    So extreme left/right policies have to be twice as popular to be worth it.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 month ago

      For starters, there are only right and extreme right policies among the Dems and Reps. Secondly, there is a massive pool of disaffected voters that would vote for a lukewarm progressive like Bernie, who was projected to even steal Trump voters, because progressive policy is popular. The Dems ran rightward and lost their voters in general.