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[Star Wars] How would you play devil's advocate in favor of the separatists?

After watching an episode of the clone wars that showed how the views of the two sides weren't so black and white, I wondered what are the reasons one would favor the separatists over the republic?
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1) The Republic had never had the fastest means of reaching decisions, thanks to the fact that it was a democracy that governed an entire galaxy. Shit takes time to decide. But over the last thousand years, the Republic had become measurably bloated and stagnant, if not outright corrupt in certain areas. People elected to represent their home planet had become career politicians rather than public servants, money made more decisions than debate and careful consideration, and a thousand years of increased procedural custom had ground the senate to a near-total halt. (A lot of this was intentionally done by the Sith over the centures)

2) Related to this stagnation and bloating, it made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the Senate to really do anything worthwhile. They never paid much attention to the outer rim in centuries past, but soon became *completely unable* to govern sections of their own territory due to this corruption. To many people in the galaxy, it was clear that the Republic no longer cared about the people. The Naboo crisis was built to be a perfect example of how the Republic senate had begun to fail, as they couldn't resolve a clear-cut example of lawbreaking. They had to vote the previous Supreme Chancellor out of office just to get something done. 

3) Times were changing in the galaxy, and the Republic was still acting like it was a thousand years ago. Massive corporations, clans, business ventures, and other financially-powerful groups had begun to enact de facto control of millions of people, and actually enact policies and changes before the Senate even had a chance to finish the opening speeches of their meetings. They were the legit governments of hundreds of worlds and massive chunks of territory, because the Senate literally could do nothing. 

4) In the rare times someone in the Senate got something rolling (Like, say Padme) through sheer force of will, it was often in direct opposition to the interests of those mega-powerful groups. The Senate wanted to enact their legal control over them, and return government oversight to places that had seen no official governance for centuries. To those groups, the total lack of regulation was exactly how they remained viable. Nosy politicians with goals of "protecting worker's rights" and "reduce environmental destruction" were terrible for business.