Jill Stein: Or, if you prefer, that candidate who’s tied with Harambe in Texas’ polls. She’s running on the Green Party ticket — the same party that produced the equally obscure tree- hugging, pro-marijuana candidate Ralph Nader in the 2000 election cycle and whose popularity probably cost Al Gore the presidency.
In an ideal world, her policy of “Medicare-for-All” would solve America’s looming health-care crisis, and her “Green New Deal” would put millions back to work in the renewable energy sector. Unfortunately, this is America, not San Francisco in the 1970s.
And 2016, like 2000 before it, will only bring disappointment for the thousands of #BernieOrBust voters who believed populism and ideological purity will win a general election.
