Jill Stein got to keep over $4 million from the funds she scammed for her recounts.

[hunter]

96. No, they are grifters.

They have much in common with the right wing grifters they vilify.

Beneath the political posturing, with all the green flag waving, in front of their gullible supporters, it's really all about them.

These kind of "heroes" do not make the U.S.A. a better place.

I'm a radical leftist and an environmental extremist. Hell, if I was Emperor of the Planet Earth, I would ban fossil fuels on a ten year timetable and tax the uber-wealthy out of existence. Fuck Nader's safe cars, I'd get rid of personal automobiles as we now know them entirely. A universal 50 kph speed limit would work. (Nader saved the automobile industry from itself. They should give him a medal... But even much improved, with crash cages, seat belts, and airbags, automobiles are still stinky, dangerous, environmentally destructive machines.)

Nevertheless, my politics are utterly practical. I don't let my utopian thinking get in the way. Obama was one of this nation's great Presidents. Trump will be one of the worst. I proudly voted for Obama, I proudly voted for Clinton.

I don't even think the aphorism "The Perfect is the enemy of the Good" applies to Stein. She's merely a disruptor. Noise. I won't even give her credit as any kind of "conscience" in U.S. politics. The platform Hillary Clinton ran on was realistic and represented progressive U.S.A. values well.