Tambourine
Well-Known Member
So a city's workforce has no rights in the city where it spends most of its day, and get no say in how it is being run.They can do this as normal of course.
You vote where you live like normal
What does Switzerland have to do with any of this? There is no political segregation between city dwellers and rural populations in Switzerland like you claim there is. It has a central government with a parliament with powers of nationwide legislation just like any other country in Europe. The idea that it is somehow a collection of autonomous communes flies in the face of reality. In fact, Swiss history has been one of the subsequent strengthening of the central government at the expense of its federal component - and it has resulted in a more egalitarian society.What are your main objections to much greater power being exercised at the local level? Do you really find Switzerland to be such a terrible, 'segrigationist' place?
One thing that you seem completely unaware of, for example, is that certain regions of Switzerland haven't allowed for universal suffrage for most of the 20th century. It was a decision by the Swiss Supreme Court, an institution of the centralized government in Bern, that forced the canton Appenzell Innerrhoden to grant universal suffrage in 1991. Would you consider the granting of a basic human right to half of its citizens a terrible loss of autonomy on behalf of the poor sexist bigots of Appenzell? It seems to be the case, given your argument.
And yes, Switzerland is a terribly racist and bigoted place even by the standards of Central Europe. Due to the way its citizenship laws work, there are literal generations of people of foreign descent who flat out cannot get naturalized, forming a literal second class population. (Although curiously, this is rarely the fate of wealthy White people of European descent, I wonder why)