IMO one of the main reasons why US democracy is so dysfunctional is because they've centralized so much power in a single location, Congress. Because the people

IMO one of the main reasons why US democracy is so dysfunctional is because they've centralized so much power in a single location, Congress. Because the people making the laws are so far removed from the people that the laws affect, transparency and accountability go out the window, the door is wide open to corruption, and even when they do try to fix problems, the one-size-fits-all approach makes for crappy solutions that don't take into account the nuances of different regions. I sure as hell don't want this for Europe. To give a couple other examples - why is 'separation of concern' better than a 'god object' in programming? Why is democracy better than monarchy? Why is an ecosystem of smaller companies better than a monopoly? Because centralization is unmanageable (too many dependencies in one place), brittle (single point of failure), inefficient (lack of locality means solutions are sub-optimal) and (when humans are involved) creates perverse incentives.