That's the price you pay for direct democracy. Sometimes really, really bad laws get accepted by the population in a referendum. Actually the Swiss Popular Par

That's the price you pay for direct democracy. Sometimes really, really bad laws get accepted by the population in a referendum. Actually the Swiss Popular Party (SVP, the right wing party) didn't do too well in the most recent elections. While they hoped to achieve > 30% of the popular vote, they're hovering around ~26%. A lot of their candidates for the smaller house of parliament (Ständerat, would be the Senate in the US) got actually hammered. So from a perspective of reason things actually seem to be looking brighter.