I don't like Jill Stein or support the Green "spoiler strategy" but let's be honest about it.

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11. Everyone I know who fits your description *is*

privileged, although many would be loathe to admit it. The vast majority are white. Most are educated and can be criticized for essential hypocrisy or naïveté or both on a wide range of views, from vaccines to foreign policy to mindless consumption.

Their candidates are a pair of wackadoodles who embrace Putin.

Their platform such as it is is regressive and dangerous.

I am happy to demonize them although I think ignoring them as usual is the best tactic. If only we hadn't amplified them by letting their infiltrators into our nominating process and convention this year. (And from this I exempt the vast majority of Sanders supporters -- I mean the mouth-taping hero-heckling babies at the DNC).

By October they will be irrelevant and back down to low single digits. And the perpetually angry and dissatisfied people who are looking for heroes to worship can move on to some other impossible dream.