Remind me again why she's better than Hillary?
-Stein supports right to employment, Clinton does not. If you run out of unemp benefits Clinton is happy to see you go to jail or to the streets to beg. To Clinton the Obama era that has seen black child poverty rise to 38% and private debt for under-35s to soar, nearly all new wealth to "top 1%" is some success story.
-Stein supports massive energy replacement/Federal jobs program to deal with above, and create Federal financing programs for worker cooperatives. Also supports repeal of Taft-Hartley to restore NLRA to the pre-1947 version that saw the mass labor organization of private industry.
-Stein supports single-payer health care, Clinton supports pretending that the ACA works and is a universal program. It doesn't and isn't, costs will continue to rise and chew up effective demand, while tens of millions remain priced out of market, in medical debt/bankruptcy, unable to afford pharmaceuticals.
-Not continuing to slaughter people in Syrian Civil war b/c they are pawns in US-Russian power struggle.
Could go on, will conclude w saying most of the Stein-hate is displaced hatred for Sanders, as he took the gloss off of Hillary in a way they weren't expecting when they drew up the 2016 nominating process as a coronation.
I wouldn't say I hate Stein, but I definitely like her much less than Sanders. Sanders was someone who I could see not making a mess in the Oval Office (more than I could say of Stein), and his experience in Congress means that he knows how the system works, and could probably do at least a little that Stein couldn't (even if he still couldn't do much) in terms of forwarding the progressive agenda. The thing is, I still think that he wouldn't be a very effective Congressional leader (being to the left of pretty much everyone there), which is why I've always been a Sanders skeptic, even though I've always considered him a better candidate than Hillary (against Trump in particular, that is).
