"Centrist Progressive" tries to bash Democratic Socialism. Fails epically.

[DetlefK]

6. He's essentially advocating a gig-economy, but on a municipal level.

Katz and Nowak highlight “networked governance” that taps a broad array of civic actors—including universities, philanthropies, non-profits, and business groups as well as multiple local jurisdictions—to get things done. Local knowledge, cross-sector collaboration and unlocking private capital are key to the New Localism’s success.

He thinks the key is to isolate players even more from each other. While this will increase flexibility, it will also decrease the political power.

Small, agile, fast. But what will it mean for the big picture?

For example:
What will happen if each city makes their own healthcare-policy?
Their own minimum-wage policy?
Their own environmental policy?
Their own regulations with respect to predatory forms of capitalism?

Do you really think that we can implement progressive policies when each city has to fight Big Pharma and Big Telecom and Wall Street and the Koch brothers on its own?

Your church's soup-kitchen won't look so good when a big company rolls into town and promises jobs in exchange for taxpayer-money and being exempt from regulations.