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Despite its 4 languages Switzerland is not a melting pot or anything like that. Just like Spain has several official languages and still is pretty Spanish all over the place. I guess people within such a federal structure tend to stress their differences rather than their commonalities.
Switzerland is not disintegrating into tribalism like the US is.
Republicans, conservatives, tea partiers, and libertarians love to talk about the government doing less and shrinking government. I'm just curious if those who think government should be smaller, or shouldn't do much, could point to a country where their political philosophy is currently put in place and is showing good results.
This is a pretty odd question to ask. First off, how many times do you see liberals say "we're not Mexico" or "we're not Saudi Arabia" when that suits their agenda? Secondly, after three years of liberals controlling congress and two years of a liberal in the WH we certainly know of one country where liberalism doesn't work.
Republicans, conservatives, tea partiers, and libertarians love to talk about the government doing less and shrinking government. I'm just curious if those who think government should be smaller, or shouldn't do much, could point to a country where their political philosophy is currently put in place and is showing good results.
Deflections and trips down (inaccurate) Memory Lane notwithstanding, from the responses so far, it would appear that the answer is ... there is no such place.
This is a pretty odd question to ask. First off, how many times do you see liberals say "we're not Mexico" or "we're not Saudi Arabia" when that suits their agenda? Secondly, after three years of liberals controlling congress and two years of a liberal in the WH we certainly know of one country where liberalism doesn't work.
Actually, it's liberals who are generally trying to convince conservatives that there's really a whole, civilized world of examples of policies in action from which to determine whether a certain proposed course of action would have negative or positive effects in the United States.
It's conservatives who are usually trying to point out that things are A-OK here because they are better here than in 3rd world crap holes.
It is. There's no Mexican-Swiss community, no African-Swiss community, no Quaker community, no reservations fro Native Swiss.
There is a Tamil Swiss community and an Arab Muslim Swiss community. If you bothered to read about Swiss current events there is a huge political fight about Islam in Switzeraland and Arab immigration.
There is a Tamil Swiss community and an Arab Muslim Swiss community. If you bothered to read about Swiss current events there is a huge political fight about Islam in Switzeraland and Arab immigration.
Because the Swiss wish their society to remain culturally and racially closed.
Because the Swiss wish their society to remain culturally and racially closed.
Foreign born workers make up 20% of the population and as I said these Indian and Arab communities already exist. Once more nationalist parties in Switzerland cannot muster 30% of the vote. On top of that Switzerland has a ton of liberal policies such as socialized health care. Switzerland is not a tea party paradise.
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