Of course you can say it about democracy. The basis for democracy as we know it is the modern nation state, a fundamentally centralized institution. Democracy w

Of course you can say it about democracy. The basis for democracy as we know it is the modern nation state, a fundamentally centralized institution. Democracy without a high degree of centralization tends to decay. Even the dictator in its original sense as an institution acts on behalf of the people, appointed during times of exception. (many presidents in presidential republics today actually have comparable emergency powers). So centralization is not an insult to democracy at all. Decentralization aligns if you want to make a political analogy, much closer with democracy's predecessor, feudal society in which sovereign fiefdoms compete with each other. (It's not surprising that this is also a popular form of organization among libertarian decentralization advocates).