The irony, is we are seeing political positioning to maintain centralization, and the politicians are arguing that there version of centralized power is needed for decentralization.
It is highly ironic isn't it....
Humans as a species seem to love leaders and centralized decision making, we must be wired for it. Every example of a decentralize economic & political system that humans have organized (early US, early Rome are two examples) have been short lived and degenerated into the inevitable command and control organization model. But that's a different topic.