Federalism

I doubt, 80% people in Nepal has not yet known the true power of democracy and they are already fighting over the issue of federalism... To those who thinks that federalism will divide the state, if that were the case, USA should have been divided into many small countries, India should have been divided. Many of the first world countries are now federal. Federalism helps to enhance the development of a nation by decentralizing the power and giving it in the hands of the locals and now my question here is, to the supporters of federalism, Are all the citizen well educated about the merits and demerits of federalism? more importantly, are our leaders worth the power? For federalism to be applied, we need to educate ourselves first, we need to understand what is right and what is wrong. Since 2007 B.S the citizens have many times shed their blood in the street for a better future, initially for democracy, then for referendum and recently for republic and now a new platform is being set for the demand of federalism. But what benefit has the people ever got after all their sacrifices? Yet, we don't stop ourselves from fighting for the selfish desires of the leaders. Well, the demands in itself are not selfish, it is for the people, for the country but those demands when fulfilled, are not being used as they were meant to be. People fought for democracy, they got it, but it gave more fruitful outcome only to the political leaders and their supporters, to the local/ordinary people, it made no difference.