OK Boomer: Jill Stein’s Endless Narcissism
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The NYT did a longish profile on Jill Stein’s latest Green Party presidential run (Stein ran in 2012 and 2016, and the 1.5 million votes she got in the latter year may well have gifted us the Donald Trump presidency).
I think generational generalizations are generally lazy and pointless, but I’m going to make an exception for Stein, who was born in 1950 and was at Harvard College in 1968, where she was literally a folk singer (I defer to Cracker on the critical folk singer shortage America’s premier colleges have faced for generations now). Stein is, in other words, the most stereotypical possible example of a Greening of America special snowflake baby boomer.
Speaking of narcissistic crank magnetism:
Ms. Stein’s supporters tend to explain their choice as a product of principle and exasperation.
Bob McMurray, a campaign volunteer who attended the rally in Dearborn, said he voted for Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Biden in the last two elections. But he faulted Democrats for violence in the Middle East, he said, and could not abide another nose-holding November, even as he surmised that Mr. Trump would be worse for Gaza.
“I’ve spent my entire adult life voting for the lesser of two evils,” he said. “I’m tired of it.”
Ms. Stein has also suggested that a Trump victory might serve the cause of left-wing protest.
Because what the world needs now is more left-wing protest, or “protest.” PUT THAT LATTE DOWN. Protest is for closers.
Consciously voting for what one acknowledges is the GREATER of two evils is a kind of principle.
The profile notes that several members of Stein’s own family have tried to get her to stop, but people like this never stop, because their narcissism has completely consumed them.
It also notes the many connections between the Stein campaign, the Republican party, and the nation of Russia.
“No Republican knows that oil production under Biden is higher than ever. But Jill Stein’s people do,” Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s former White House chief strategist, said earlier this year, adding, “The more exposure these guys get, the better it is for us.”
Ralph Nader is also quoted, which I assume provided the nonagenarian with his semi-annual semi-erection.
Unfortunately RFK Jr. has managed to get himself removed from all swing state ballots other than Michigan, while Stein infests all of them, while Cornel West — the candidate for soi-disant leftists for whom Dr. Jill Stein is just too establishment — is on the ballot in Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia.
I don’t expect Stein and West to get more than a few hundred thousand votes combined. Still, given the razor thin margins we’re likely to see in the swing states, the votes going to these two clowns rather than Harris could quite possibly prove decisive, especially in Michigan, with its relatively large Arab-American population, which Stein has been assiduously cultivating with her not at all completely insane Stop the Violence in Gaza By Electing Donald Trump message.