You apparently haven't been around the same progressives I have. I can name one person off the top of my head who took that position; the rest either voted for Stein or said stuff
along these lines.
(Plenty of Stein and Bernie fans did vote for Hillary, of course. I'm talking about the sort of blog-writing leftists you see online.)
To those who object to the thread title- it's also the title of the blog post I linked to. Maybe it is inflammatory, but you can probably deal with that like adults. I did this to get what I needed to say off my chest, and that's that. I don't care if anybody chooses to discuss what I said.
EDIT: I didn't refresh the page for 45 minutes and missed your latest post. Some of this is out of date, but I'll leave it here anyway. As you'll see, I have a pretty bad case of someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet syndrome too.
As for me, I voted for Bernie. And I didn't like her, but I held my nose and voted for Stein.
Why? I'm not much of an environmentalist or an SJW or a commie. It's mainly because the options presented to me were the following:
1. The person at the exact center of a Democratic establishment that is in serious need of finding out that many of its assumptions are wrong, in ways that are often actively harmful.
2. A person whose behavior makes him appear to be an erratic, sociopathic narcissist, on the ticket of a party that has caused large amounts of damage, including that they spent the past eight years causing as much obstruction as possible. (Please be right, Scott Adams...)
3. A person representing the ideology I followed for about a year and then rejected, forming strong antibodies against it, and whose economic plans are for the most part even worse than choice #2.
4. A person who appears to be a garden-variety idealist hippie type, who courted left-wing fringe nuts by evading any question about antivaxxers or homeopathy, but who generally supports a big program of Keynesian spending on things that are pretty close to what we need, although I would quibble about details.
If this were Australia or somewhere else with instant-runoff voting, I would rank them 4, 1, 3, 2. All are turds, but these are ranked from my most preferred turd down to my least preferred turd.
Now for the tactical considerations. I live in an absolutely safe state, so under the American electoral system, there is no incentive for me to vote 1 over 4 where I live. If I lived in Iowa the way I did in 2008, I would have voted 1 over 4, because people thought it had a nontrivial chance of going for Clinton.
This has been a big week for disproving assumptions, so I'll put a couple of yours in the spotlight. You have shown little understanding the way the leftists on this board think, and the different strands of leftism, so that most of your assumptions you have stated are wrong. For example, the SJWs mostly or entirely voted for Clinton, not Stein. They were really worked up about all of Trump's inflammatory comments, far more so than I was.
People who actually vote for Stein (not just say it, but that almost-1% who actually did it) are quite commonly people like me who don't like any of them but chose the most inoffensive turd. Some hard-left people, and some passionate environmentalists and/or hippies would also be in this group. She is in the environmentalist/hippie group, but she is not a hard-left type such as Cheezy or ReindeerThistle; they would not permit her to answer questions in Ask a Red because she is not a communist of any of the numerous types. And then there are others; her best result in any county actually came from an Indian reservation in North Dakota, where she won over 10%.
People who voted for Bernie were not entirely "real" leftists or college students either - he would never have won any state but Vermont if that were how it played out. That's how the Clinton camp thought it was going to happen, but they were wrong, one of many miscalculations by them. Among the white working class voters who remain in the Democratic Party and do not live in the South, he easily won. Many of that second group of his coalition did not vote, voted for Trump, or voted for a third party (in that order).
You should pay attention to a bunch of different ideologies all over the spectrum, so that you can be right about what they believe. It's actually really interesting if you take the time.
