The sleep of the just Oliver Room
The critical intelligence in Switzerland lamented often that SVP have plunged the country into a dumbing down. Apparent evidence is quickly at hand: Rise of the Party as the strongest political force in the country, the output of the minaret initiative ; finally the adoption of the
deportation initiative on Sunday. It is expected that in future even more will cling to the idea of the alleged seducer of the people. When an argument is in fact an intellectual empty formula.
For the Bloc her party is therefore also in the high, because of the advanced Liberalismu s failed in Switzerland. Deficits in the interpretation of Swiss history and present play a e central role. The opinion about that s I hundreds of thousands of people from a well-oiled propaganda drum roll is so easy to make, in the modern history of research out of date. Ideologies can be sold only if they pick up people anywhere.
each his Wutbürger?
Why does the SVP with their initiatives on "stranger" and "foreigner" He success? Some commentators believe it was because of globalization, such as the fact that the competition in the housing and job market has become bigger. Popular is the idea that had the social development of so much accelerated, that the social and cultural conditions have become confusing. With the result that people in their skin would not feel comfortable and give them the once familiar environment had become a stranger.
similar Thus, recently, according to Grand Master philosophical, reasons in this paper: Globalization had the "Wutbürger» generated, the resentment is directed primarily against the "world citizens" who had kept his eyes on the large picture. Such a one has, something like this, read many times. The sound is familiar. Above all, he is strangely ahistorical.
The great pressure to assimilate
completely without historical substance, it is not. It shows, for example, d ass old republics a greater assimilation than not put pressure Republican state. The maxim of the one and indivisible nation has been one of the revolution of the basic equipment of the national self-understanding in France. So named Nikolas Sarkozy, the burqa incompatible with the principles of the French Republic.
But there is hardly a company that produces a similar size as the pressure to assimilate local authored Republic of Switzerland. Unlike the adjacent en abroad have made it the Swiss communities to this day, to prevent the expansion of power of the state in key areas of public life. So there is no other country where the community are citizens of the host to the Swiss citizenship. increased
assimilation machine
This has consequences: Unlike in other countries act in Switzerland, not the state as guardians of the nation, but the citizen and the citizen. This the National an integral part of civic life world - and thus the assimilation. Every Swiss is a Swiss maker of potential. Right there picks up the SVP from the people with their initiatives. Crime by foreigners is the antithesis of assimilation. That may explain why there was a lot of people seem to care that the SVP initiative does not distinguish between minor and serious offenses. Each offense is the willingness to integrate into question. Since obviously suggests the Swiss artist in some Swiss to. The flat rate to estimate as xenophobia, is cheap and explains little. understood
The fact that the SVP's history and the presence of Switzerland in a central area apparently better than their opponents, which is connected to the seriousness of the votes in recent years. The country lacks an intelligent left-wing liberalism. It would be necessary for example that the self-proclaimed world citizen finally deal critically with the issue of integration. This requires, however, a better understanding of the historical forces stamping Switzerland.
If you think the story loses in importance with globalization, pays homage to a legend. Appeals to the will of a nation it is not do so. Of central importance is the local character of the Swiss political culture. The municipal republicanism has always released only as strong integrative forces. The policy of the SVP appeals to the former. Progressive liberals should start being interested in its integrative potential.
The Zurich historian Oliver rooms Modern history teaches at the prestigious University of Oxford. ---
What do you think, dear reader? Has rooms right? If he sees something clearer from abroad when our journalists, Leftist intellectuals and chief in the country?
Why have the Left, for example, does not reach with their concerns? Are you also been overrun by the "million-dollar propaganda machine" of the Economiesuisse and thereafter as agreed under internal pressure against the tax "fair" initiative?
Is not it a resounding Ohrfegie for parliament and the Bundesrat, that in no single canton counter-proposal by a majority? A slap for what?
is the way something happened on the weekend, which was so far no one worth mentioning: The People's Party is one of their deepest concerns far beyond their electorate out into the mainstream of society marches . And this at a unusually high voter turnout: the left went to vote for the tax initiative, and then immediately put another Doppelnein against the sheep posters in the urn. CVP, FDP and the other "decent" parties of the spongy center have brutally shipwrecked.
Let me close with the personal, sincere desire that we may now have a while the calm before the alien theme and move on to more important topics . After all, elections next year and we want to know just what ideas are in place to Switzerland in a successful, secure and independent future to lead (including is me for nothing), and not just about whether you can now take one or two cabinet ministers or not.
Today we conclude with JS Bach the chapter "sheep posters", which Switzerland has held for three years in suspense. In Bach's Cantata BWV 208 states:
may safely graze sheep,
wakes Where the good shepherd. Where
regents govern well,
Can you feel peace and calm
And what countries happy.
Although we do not regents and the shepherds are in our democracy, we ourselves - or, at the Lord at the top. And you can listen to the wonderful piece of music here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjqnlc7MRw
beautiful second advent all of you and your families!
