You're probably right in a larger sense, but the Supreme Court decision was ridiculous, suggesting that I can go one on one with some corporation or labor union. Control on donations can help things.
Local is always better, but my theory is that people looked to the Feds when locals denied their rights, the first, biggest example of this (in reverse) is what happened in the South post reconstruction, as rights were lost when the Feds pulled out. Local is almost always better. But if Mississippi won't allow you to vote, if local troops shoot you when you go on strike, if you are paid less for the same work and the state doesn't care, if you are locked in a factory and it catches fire, if your rivers are polluted and state inspectors are nowhere to be found, you look to DC to get involved in the details of your life. Most people don't care which fire department shows up when their house is burning. And of course, some who cry deep state think holding people without charging them and waterboarding is all right. Kafka is in the eye of the beholder.
