And the actual reason that Democrats are bloodthirsty after Stein isn't about 'protecting democracy™' it's not to prevent a Harris loss, or 'splitting the vote™.' It's that if the green party gets 5% this election, they get automatic ballot access in all 50 states without having to fight for it every single election. It entitles them to public funding of elections. It would also grant them a podium at the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates.
“I think it’s really important for people not to accept your powerlessness,” Stein said in the interview. “You’re being told you’re powerless. You’re actually not powerless. You are powerful. Nobody owns your vote. They have to earn your vote. And unless you are making them earn your vote, you are powerless.
“. . . And what you see,” she goes on, “is what you’re going to get more of. Throughout history, we make progress when we stand up as movements, and those movements then have political vehicles.”