Here's how Jill Stein helps Putin promote his right-wing agenda to the American left

[DonViejo]

TRAVIS GETTYS
13 JAN 2017 AT 09:44 ET

Jill Stein ran to the left of Hillary Clinton, but her views frequently line up with Vladimir Putin — whose policies contradict many of the left-wing values she champions.

Journalist Casey Michel reported for The Daily Beast on Stein’s political ties to Putin, who considers Clinton his enemy, and how the Kremlin-sponsored media outlets promote anti-American views aimed at both the far-right and far-left in the U.S.

“Stein presents herself as a champion of the underclass and the environment, and an opponent of the surveillance state and corporate media, and yet she seemed to take pleasure in her marriage of true minds with a kleptocratic intelligence officer who levels forests and arrests or kills critical journalists and invades foreign countries,” Michel wrote. “Their true commonality, of course, is that both Putin and Stein are dogged opponents of U.S. foreign policy.”

Intelligence officials explained to both Donald Trump and President Barack Obama last week how Russia uses media outlets such as RT, formerly known as Russia Today, to undermine domestic trust in American democratic institutions. According to intelligence officials, RT also actively collaborated with WikiLeaks to peel away American leftists from Clinton, who Putin despises for challenging the fairness of Russian elections.

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[Dream Girl]

1. She was definite a useful idiot.

[nini]

2. All you gotta do is tell people what they want to hear

Then they'll ignore the ugly truth about you. She didn't fool me at all.

[MineralMan]

3. She was just a willing dupe.

Like a lot of people who think they're on the left, it can be difficult to distinguish them from those on the far libertarian right. A lot of people, including some DUers failed to make that distinction, due to their extreme dislike of our government and of government in general.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Strange bedfellows, indeed.

[LonePirate]

4. That explains the Stein love affair on sites like JPR.