Cornel West, member of DNC platform committee, comes out in support of Jill Stein

[Nevernose]

47. I still have nothing but love, admiration, and respect for Cornel West

But he's wrong here. Really fucking wrong. I like the Green Party and their platform, and I like Jill Stein, too. But a vote for the Green Party is a vote for reality star Donald Trump. Hillary's not my favorite candidate, either, but you vote for the candidate you have, not the one you wish you had.

On a related note: it's been fascinating watching and reading him over the last decade, becoming more and more disillusioned with President Obama. Maybe some of that's even justified. There was, for instance, many things he could have accomplished without Congress that he didn't even try. Obama has always been a shitty negotiator with his fellow Americans ironically, whereas his team knocked it out of the park with Iran and Cuba (at least some of which was HRC). Dr. West, though, simply got too disillusioned. He went past pragmatism and into depression, like many of my fellow Sanders supporters.

Emotionally, it's like scuba diving. You have to descend deeper and deeper, but still remain neutral buoyancy. A little in the wrong way in either direction, and you either shoot to the surface or drop like a rock. Either way is bad.

tl;dr I understand where he's coming from, but really wish he wasn't going there.