The corporations will at least have to go through an ostensibly democratic parliament system to get their agenda passed instead of a fully authoritarian EU Council that is not subject to any kind of democratic control.
You jest, but your satirical examples are actually being floated for real. Exhibit A: let's ban cars because terrorists might use them to run over people.
Because the MSM is either in the pocket of the economic elite, or have a workforce of 20-somethings that can live and write from anywhere with a net connection.
The anti-EU sentiment is coming from the people with family, a mortgage around their neck, and watching their former workplace rot away, stripped of all machinery, because the bosses in the glass tower decided that it was more beneficial for the bottom line to sack the lot and contract with a foreign company.
I don't believe you even care about credibility outside of your ideological bubble.
But, in case I am wrong, I'd recommend to avoid clichés that only have meaning for you. It is sloppy and lazy. This acronym is like crying out loud: "I'll just blurt out a standard canned answer devoid of any deep thinking or originality".
It's a question of sheer amount of corruption. We're at a point where the revolving door has become an expressway, and the connection has become so hardened, that the only option becomes to shut them down.
Sure, in a perfect world you'd rather have functioning agencies operating in the public interest, but people need to remember that every agency created represents yet another attack surface for corruption.
A case study in how to implement an anti-democratic power grab by decorating it with buzzwords like "helping marginalized people".
The crux of the story is that they no longer want city planning decisions to have any public input, therefore they killed off the neighborhood councils by implying they were racist because they weren't "inclusive" enough. Despite the fact that no replacement mechanism for democratic public input was implemented, the article makes it sound like removing public input is a great thing.
Note that NextCity is staffed and funded by anti-American warmonger outfits like Brookings, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Ford Foundation, etc. etc.
On the one hand you warn about trying to guess the outcomes of complex economic systems, while on the other you go ahead and put forward a wild guess yourself.
It's just as likely that although some jobs may be sent back to India, if all wages increase, then it's a net benefit to your average American.
He's a shill, and the poisoning-our-food industry employs the most shills overall.