Switzerland after Blocher voted out (2)
course, it would be interesting to put Blocher with Putin and Chavez in a row. In the era of globalization and the Internet culture is a significant desire for strong leaders is clear. This applies not just a couple of Russian pensioners, or favela, but broader medium-sized layers.
It would be wrong, the tendency towards personality cults in to see the SVP primarily as a parody of Putin and Berlusconi. Rather, the history of modern Switzerland is her links. First, it was
in crisis situations and breaking every now and again charismatic patriarch, who went more or less large parts of the population under its spell. Escher, or Dutti Guisan could build greater power bubbles. The burst but in due course or was ground by the millstones of direct democracy to small parts.
Second, there are in the right middle of Zurich is an old tradition, to be guided by authoritarian German models. This flow felt the German empire much more connected than the direct-democratic Tradition of Switzerland. Dese relatively authoritarian tendencies to the taste of Carl Schmitt retained in the Federal Republic of Adenauer's considerable weight and influence. After National Socialism was discredited, however, follows the leaders thought that the rights in Switzerland had the fingers on it. It took the relativism of values and routinization of provocation in the postmodern approaches to the personality cult is now in the local middle class are reflected become socially acceptable. We do not
a renaissance of fascism, but the rise of a hybrid mix populism, the effective authoritarian and libertarian elements. That cult of personality with the best traditions of Switzerland such as federalism and civil society Democracy breaks makes him quite vulnerable. If left and liberal citizens more re-invigorated the rule of law and direct democracy, Switzerland, could the latest attack of a personality cult will soon leave behind.
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