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Am I witnessing democracy right now ? Wow it's like people collectively decide about key topics, amazing. Go Switzerland !
It's not real democracy as the government motivate people to vote yes or no, and the government is completely corrupted. But yeah, it looks close to a democracy
You are not required to vote. You will not be punished if you abstain from your vote. You are completely free to chose "yes" or "no" based on your own judgings.
Isn't that exactly what democracy is about?
The thing is plenty of politics are paid by insurances and other big companies. Those people influence most of the voters which makes it unbalanced
Indeed, the lobbying is nasty and the party financing is not as transparent as it could be.
But discrediting the whole system as undemocratic because of those "minor flaws" is just not fair IMO.
I posted above already, but repeating for visibility. There is an initiative in the works right now to combat this: https://www.no-lobbying.ch/
Maybe not all the system is corrupted, but when I found that Switzerland just follow the rules defined by the open wallet forum in this case. I've doubts
Do you have the same issue with the W3C or the Wifi Alliance?
I don't
Why not? They are mostly made up of corporations.