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[Star Wars] Okay, Palpatine was an evil bastard, but wasn't he correct that the Republic needed to centralize power?

Obviously not to the extent of making it a theocratic dictatorship like the Empire, mind you, but the Republic before Palpatine's reforms was clearly to brittle and fragile, and would not be able to weather crises effectively. Palpatine intentionally worsened these problems to gain power, but they would have still existed without him.

I'm just saying, there's got to be an in-between state besides "*laissez faire* confederacy" and "military dictatorship."
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Lasted for a thousand years, and it still took most of a generation to bring down from within by a concerted conspiracy involving several actors all with immense power within and without the Republic.

The centralization of power is largely *what brought about* the crises that were ultimately leveraged to kill it. The system worked fine for a very long time.

You want a *laissez faire* confederacy, take a look at the post-Empire Republic. One planet and a fleet destroyed, and it's tits up, organizationally. The pre-Empire Republic *was* the in-between state. Which is why it weathered an entire millennium.