Jill Stein reveals her true colors via her running mate:: WTF?!!

[Downtown Hound]

49. Confession: I'm a Nader 2000 voter

In my defense I can honestly say I was planning on voting for Gore pretty much up until the last minute. I was 24 and going to college and working in a movie theater at the time, and I had heard on the radio that Gore had already been declared the winner of California, my state. So I figured what the hell and went and cast my vote for Nader when I got off work, believing it would make no difference since Gore had already won here.

I regret my vote to this day. Not because it would have made a difference in the outcome, it wouldn't have. But I regret giving credence to Nader and his platform of lies that there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. I regret being young and naive and being taken in by a man who I have come to believe is one of the greatest con men operating in American politics (fortunately a lot less now). I was young and naive and idealistic. I bought into the whole "vote your conscience, not your fear" crap that Nader and the Greens were peddling back then and still are today. I regret not knowing that being young and white and from a middle class family did not prepare me for the fact that sometimes fear is warranted and a perfectly valid thing to feel, especially when it comes to handing over the reigns of the most powerful nation in the world to a bumbling psychopath.

I blame myself for being young and naive and taken in by his garbage. But I blame Nader for exploiting that type of idealism even more. Nader is a conniving ass who exploits idealism and naivety while all the while giving nothing back. Well, I take that back, he did give us George W. Bush.

Bernie Sanders did it right, fighting hard and sticking to his principles but ultimately putting his ego aside and doing what was right for the country and the planet by getting behind the Democratic nominee when the time was right. Nader did not. Nader loves his role of spoiler and relishes the power it gives him. He cares nothing for the people that will be hurt in the process. That makes him as bad as any Republican.