Gregg,

Ohk, i’ll play your game.

**Perhaps this is a good place to start. Trent, actual people’s lives are involved in political, corporate and governmental decisions. That you consider this to be a “game” speaks volumes.**

Do you think there should be an EPA, a Department of Education, a Department of Energy, and Department of Housing, etc should be killed at the Federal level?

**EPA-keep it. Dept of Education-kill it. Department of Housing-kill it. Etc…depends on the mission, and whether actual reform is possible.**

Do you think the Federal Government should ensure voting rights?

**Yes**

Do you think the Federal Government should send money to an area that has just experienced a natural disaster (see Katrina)?

Money is but one component, but if the question is, do I believe the federal government has a proper role to play in helping those damaged by natural disaster, the answer is yes, and no. Those with the capacity to help themselves should be expected to do so. Those who made foolish decisions about where they located their homes etc should not be helped by the federal government.**

If you want to kill all those departments, and dont want the Federal Government to do all those things—I’ll apologize and take back my remarks.

**Your apologies are unimportant to me. Frankly, I don’t care either way.**

If not, then you do not support decentralism–you simply give it lip service.

**So, to be clear, you get to decide what defines green decentralization, even though you have shown neither any real understanding of Green politics nor the capacity for honest, independent evaluation of the Green Party or our politics. Your prejudice against the Green Party and our goals and values clouds your judgment to the point that all I see when I read what you write is contempt.**

And, I’ll also note, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Rich Whitney, or whomever–I have never heard any major Green suggest that the Federal government ought to give up power to the states or localities.

**Well, the Michigan Greens have rejected the idea of a federal bail-out for the auto industry. You don’t understand, and don’t want to understand, green thinking. And, while I don’t expect you to change even a little bit, I do know that I have never seen a single Green Party member call for distancing us from decentralization, or any of the Ten Key Values. The fact that you are focused on the “leaders” of the party shows just how deeply you don’t understand decentralization.**

my favorite quote whenever i get tired of trying to win elections and just want to rely on activism to change things:)

Spoken like a true karl rove.