I wrote this on Tuesday The result for Zack Polanski is worse than expected. My instinct is that the low turnout is a sign that a bunch of potential Greens voters didn’t bother, partly because of the Zionism motion, and partly because the momentum has evaporated. How many times will we repeat this cycle? - Get excited by a new leader - Recruit new members - Direct all the energy into electoral campaigning and ignore community building - Watch as one or two unforced errors and huge and well-funded campaigns smash it to pieces The system is broken. To the extent that it ever “worked”. The only path from here is cultivating communities with the skills and practices from which new systems can emerge.