I have never heard of Jill Stein until just a few months ago when I saw some article about her on the Lemmy homepage. Then I saw more and more articles about her. However, I don’t really know why the media is paying so much attention to her. She is just a third party candidate, right? There are other third party candidates that aren’t constantly popping up in the news. So why Jill Stein? I hear its something to do with Russia and a general sense of her goal being to take votes away from Kamala.

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    as an independent voter that feels continually ignored by the by the right and left

    A party in the U.S. of any relevance that could be described as “left-wing” would be news to me.

    You’ve got a corrupt conservative party and an extremely corrupt "pro"gressive(regressive?) anti-democratic party.

    third parties can be an attractive choice for some

    Third parties are never an attractive choice for anyone in a first-past-the-post voting systems with two extremely dominant parties, regardless of what any of those parties stand for. The only sensible choice is the (in your opinion) least bad option that still has a realistic chance of winning.