The green party becomes eligible for more federal funding for the next election if they pass a certain threshold . So they have a vested interest in their numbers being as good as possible . Also Stein is a woman who has to work within the vicinity of where trump will be if he becomes president . Im sure that a decent part of this is also coming from a sense of fear of being sexually assaulted . <| sep |> Run back to your safe space . It ' s ok bb , you won ' t face contrary opinions or different views there . <| sep |> you do gain a little from a merchant collecting in your homenode . I ' ve often seen my income as listed in the tradescreen of my homenode go up a little from it . it ' s not much , but if you have nothing else to do with that merchanteither no more nodes within trading range , or only nodes that don ' t feed into your homenode it ' s still a way to get a little income out of it .