Such as? I'm not too familiar with the way Switzerland does things. Could you be more specific?
Switzerland is kind of a federation. Each state in it, is independent actually, practically. It is how the US model should have been. Power is decentralised into those states, rather than centralised as a national government. They do have a national government and it does have powers, but each state can choose not to follow any new law of that centralised government.
I am not extremely strong in my understanding of the Swizz model, but as far as I know, most policies are managed at the state level, rather than the federal level. And those at the federal level is more a cooperation organisation for the states where they agree on common policies and implement them together.
In Switzerland the people have the right to call for a referedum on ANY policy. This means that any point the people of the states, and I think also at a national level can vote to discard any policy, or implement any popular policy. Referendums are popular in Switzerland, there are many of them, especially at the state levels.
Okay, but that is just not realistic. You are going to get what you pay for, even more incompetence.
I dont agree, I think it is the opposite. Money creates the corruption, and the lack of it would bring only people who have important views, into politics.
But then again, I think politicians should not be the people in power, I think they should be idea makers, just like Plato thought. The philosophers should be the politicians. But unlike Plato I think the people should be the ones with the power.
I completely agree, but those parties and their followers have completely taken over politics unfortunately. I would really love to get rid of both main parties.
Its terrible. In Europe we have many parties, but almost the same scenario as in the US. We have two "alliances" and they fight to get power, they fight to be right, and have absolutely no regard for what the people want.
Well the problem with this is that everyone does not share the same value system. Everyone votes to reflect their own wants, needs and values.
Ooh yes, ofcourse. I did not mean values actually. I meant "state values", being laws that represents the general values of a majority. Not 50%, but a huge majority, lets say 75% for example.
There are many cases where the government goes against the obvious values of their people when changing laws. This should not be possible.
We need to vote and cement a certain foundation of our state. Like the constitution for example. That should be unchangable. Bill of rights being state values for example.
Unfortunately in the US, now the politicians do not care about it anymore.
Some good points but no real solutions that I can see. I'm sure Sweden and Switzerland have their own issues.
Sweden and Switzerland are very different, whereas Sweden have a faulty democratic system just like the US and most European systems, Switzerland have a different democratic system from everyone else in the west, and the world actually.
i am not saying its perfect, but it is a good beginning. Switzerland do have their own issues, and the people is not fully in charge, which is why there are some policies that I am sure most Swiss people do not support.