Because public debate and allowing multiple points of view to be heard is slow. Because educating the public is difficult and takes time. Because crafting the

Because public debate and allowing multiple points of view to be heard is slow. Because educating the public is difficult and takes time. Because crafting the rules by which people are governed is an inherently political process. Because deep divisions, and the theft of property rights from the majority by secret laws is an escalation. Because doing things in a transparently public process is how you build institutions for the long term. ==== If we are building a global government, let us build it with the long term benefit of humanity as it's guiding principle. Not with the short term profits of a tiny elite at the expense of the future of our species. Any attempt to use trade negotiations to bypass national democracies is prima facie evidence of malfeasance. But further entrenching a shortsighted corporate feudalism that disregards ecosystem services and deprioritizes the health of the biosphere is species suicide in the making.