>>>>”Would you pool your resources with the neighbors on the street you live on?”<<<<
Yes, if it suited, and was mutually agreed with my neighbours & reciprocated.
>>>>”Leave your door open so that any of them can walk in at anytime? Let them go through your kitchen at will?”<<<<
Since you put it that way, naturally, No.
But the above is one Extreme end of a continuum. The other equally is:
I would not shut the door to isolate myself on the street I live in, to live in a pristine environment & conditions, because it can’t be reasonably and realistically done, in a very much interconnected political, social and economic world. Longer term, it can’t be sustained.
>>>”No? So then why is this pushed as a “solution” for any country?”<<<
Extreme ends of a continuum are not desirable in my view.
The EU commission acts as a legislative body, but is neither elected by the member states, nor is it accountable to them. BREXIT is a response to the same situation as the US in 1776 - the entrapment of having responsibilities (taxes, etc.) without liberties because the EU government loves to provide dictates without having to deal with the realities.
It is much like the 2016 US Federal behemoth. Unfunded mandates make the masses love fedgov, while inspiring hate and mistrust toward the states, who are relegated to acting as bag men for the fedgov overlords.