Lol, I guess I should have led with "extremely, profoundly ignorant in a way that almost has to be a choice at this point” for all of the reading comprehension in this post.

Aside from the fact that I am far more left than the democratic party and your base assumption about me and the point of my post is woefully far off, I would really love some answer to a very basic question:

What has the effect been for left/progressive policy from sitting out elections or voting for third party/independents?

While left/progressives sit over here and go "oh I don't like this candidate because they voted for this policy in '92 that was bad for beluga whales" the right will line up and dutifully vote for a rapist that tried to overthrow democracy as long as they have an R next to their name.

But yeah, vote your principles! Go out there and vote for the green candidate! After all, look at how well that went towards advancing green principles - The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; grassroots democracy; anti-war; anti-racism; libertarian socialism and eco-socialism. All that got so much better thanks to the idealists who thought Hillary was a little too corporate or had a little too much resting bitch face.