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Switzerland is the perfect model for what a direct democracy actually looks like and it is nothing like a twitter mob.
by username90 5y ago
Switzerland is the perfect model for what a direct democracy actually looks like and it is nothing like a twitter mob.
- temp8964 5y agoWhat? This is a totally nonsensical response. Everybody read history knows current Switzerland is a very unique outlier.
- username90 5y agoWhy couldn't other countries just implement the same system? Is there something magical about Swiss people that makes them handle direct democracy responsibly that other populations doesn't have? If you talk about their finances, sure that wont replicate, but there is nothing preventing their model of democracy from working.
- temp8964 5y ago> Is there something magical about Swiss people that makes them handle direct democracy responsibly that other populations doesn't have? This doesn't have to be anything magical. Do you believe there is no cultural difference? Or do you believe culture doesn't matter to a democracy system?
- eitland 5y ago> Everybody read history knows current Switzerland is a very unique outlier. Correct. But I cannot see how it supports this part that you started with: > What? This is a totally nonsensical response.
- 4h53n 5y agoWhere "voters narrowly rejected a plan to levy taxes on airline tickets and car fuel to tackle climate change". https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2021/06/19/politics-this-week https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2021/06/19/pol...
- thu2111 5y agoWhat's your point? The internet mob views the rightness of such things as being beyond question, an actual direct democracy doesn't. Seems like good support for the original point.