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

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68. Whether they or their policies are taken seriously is really up to them.

Politicians are going to work to persuade the persuadable.

Jill Stein supporters (or at least, those educated about how are system works) are working to ensure progressive policies are never enacted, solely so they have an excuse to complain about the lack of enactment of progressive policies. I agree that it doesn't necessarily make them right wing. It really means they have a completely different value system than both right and left voters who care about action, rather than feeling good about themselves.

Given a choice between politicians migrating to the left (that will not get them more votes, precisely because such supporters voting behavior is not explained by policies and actions), and migrating to the middle (towards voters who are actually persuadable based on policies and actions), of course politicians are going to migrate toward the middle. That is unfortunate, but green voters have really no one to blame but themselves.