Decentralization will always just trend towards mediocrity as a mish mash of the averages of society.

Centralization paired with selfishness, greed, or incompetence will trend towards dystopia. Centralization paired with selflessness, benevolence, and competence will trend towards utopia. Project Gutenberg - classic literature in Public Domain, huge library Standard eBooks - builds off of the work of Project Gutenberg. This decentralization of power seems to be the easiest way to have a functioning political system. A federal government may ostensibly be harder to corrupt, but once corrupted they can affect your whims on a national level and be relatively easier to maintain control of. It is ostensibly easier to coerce/bribe/etc a state than a nation, but you have to do this for every single state and then try to keep them all under your thumb.

Your day to day would primarily be affect by your state, and ideally on downward with a further delegation of responsibilities getting closer and closer to you. The Federal government was to have an extremely limited role in society, largely tasked with things such as international relations. The founding vision of the US was one where the further away government was from the people, the less impact it would have on their lives.

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