Obama: Ignoring Russian Aggression Would Have Global Consequences

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ArnoldRimmer said:

huiii said:

Plus we're a direct democracy so voting on something actually means something here, as opposed to the rest of the world where all you do is vote betwen shit party A and shit party B and are stuck with whoever winns, fucking the country over for the next 4 years. ;P

Yeah, most countries in the world love to present themselves as democracies, but at the same time, most of them actually try to keep the public influence to the absolute minimum, giving the population only the choice to decide between pest and cholera every four years.

I guess it's not the exact opposite in switzerland, but from what I've heard so far, it's really much better over there, more direct democracy and all. I really envy you for that!

Well politicians are bastards wherever you are (a big part of them anyway), but we do have some mesure of influence through "Volksinitiativen" through which we can take direct influence in lawmakeing. Not that that's always a good thing either...