It kind of breaks my heart that Chris is seduced by this attack on the Greens, because that's what you're hearing around you.

Let's get the Greens, you know.

In many ways, this is like an extension of the attack that is bought and paid for by the Democrats and was funded by them throughout.

This is now its logical extension.

And it kind of breaks my heart that people are going to parrot that

before they've even checked in to see, well, what is the status of the party and what's actually

going on? Because Chris has been very far away from that. He's been out of the country for much

of the year, really didn't participate in the campaign at all. He wouldn't have a clue.

He hasn't been a part of either the

campaign or the party for years. So he kind of reflects the sort of dysfunction that came out of the

party after 2016 when I'm also pretty convinced that there was a takeover infiltration thing going on,

although I don't have evidence of that. But there were some very suspicious,

there's a very suspicious takeover that happened. And then as soon as the leadership was marginalized,

they all went home and had other things to do. These were not people who were coming in with the

usual kinds of commitments that it takes to be an active green. It takes a high level of commitment

to face the smears and the fear

campaign that you get as a green. So we don't usually have people come in who are casual about it.

They usually have a deep-seated commitment. I get that. Dr. Zeta, I do want to drill on. I just want

to make sure we get to cover all of these topics. Specifically, you mentioned that you feel like

there's going to be longevity in being able to organize or having already basically earned the trust of the Arab and Muslim American communities and that in particular, it's a community that is more resource and has more political and financial resources than other communities that have come to the Green Party in the past.

Organizing, organizing resources, yes. Right. Yeah. They are very networked. So I'm curious specifically

what you expect that to look like going forward. You know, I tweeted after the election,

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