Power needs to be decentralized.
That doesn't mean that local government doesn't have issues. People are people. They will be greedy, envious, seek to dominate, etc...etc...
But when power is localized, rather than centralized, it limits the scope of damage. For almost 100 years, the U.S. ravages the world because of the centralization of power and resources.
If we lived in the original America, this would have remained impossible. Power was decentralized.
But over the years, power was slowly stripped away from local and state governments. Then after the "Civil War," all power was concentrated in DC.
Since then, DC not only dictates to every American, seeks to dictate to the entire planet...while running roughshod all over it.
Decentralize. 
