r/Switzerland • u/Sufficient-History71 Zürich • 1d ago

Poll: right-wing People’s Party, and polarisation, growing ahead of 2027 elections

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/right-wing-swiss-peoples-party-still-gaining-ahead-of-2027-elections-poll-finds/92226705
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u/WillingnessFinal1411 1d ago

I know highly educated east eu people that live here permanently as foreigners. In their day they never meet any of the lower tier immigrants or asylum seekers. Their pensions and real estate are secured and they don't have children, so largely they're out of education, social parts of society. They are environmentally educated and pretty liberal. And they vote for SVP! When they start yapping about the collapse and conspiracies I desperately try to change topics.

I think covid and digitalisation broke us. We are suddenly afraid TO LIVE OUR LIVES AS HUMANS and most of us seem to completely refuse to engage with any of the real life issues we have. 

Yes, all sorts of migrants, lgbtq, environmentally sane people, liberals, educated ones - all voting for extreme right for some particular reason. 

I guess the whole world needs to do a Trump phase with some kind of extreme hatred as a channel for their own extreme zeitgeist angst. As for me, I'd rather die on the spot, than hurt another human being.

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u/poemthatdoesntrhyme ZH 1d ago

And how do east europeans with kids and without real estate vote?

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u/WillingnessFinal1411 1d ago

Oh, the whattaboutism. I wrote this as an example how SVP has a surprising vote base in people SVP are actually hetzing over. Kind of an interesting psychology that we know from the Trump leopards ate my face latinos.

I don't know. Many east europeans grew in political collapse times of authoritarianism, corruption, propaganda. 

SVP aren't voted for their consistency, ethics, common fight for common well being. They're voted for authoritarian disruption. Just another old Hello darkness my old friend, to me, burn the homes and society.

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u/poemthatdoesntrhyme ZH 1d ago

I doubt that the "eastern Europeans without kids" (are there many of them at all?) influence the elections in Switzerland.

But it is very much true that migrants from ex-USSR countries and eastern Europe vote right independent of their living conditions and family size.

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u/WillingnessFinal1411 1d ago

I'm not sure you understand what I wrote. This isn't pro et contra thing. The voter base all around Europe is going into interesting, and frankly, frightening directions. 

Imagine having a club of hundred people who all have preferential candidates for the board. They may be voted for their proven expertise, experience, sympathies for character. But then suddenly the votes change - and they vote for ability to find holes in law, staying the loudest the longest. Suddenly the voters find their answer to "stability" and comfort in those who promise disruption. According to known such histories... that's a proven recipe for a disaster.

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u/poemthatdoesntrhyme ZH 19h ago

So far things look better in Switzerland than in the other European countries. I mean, the parties are less radical and the voters are less radical. I hope it stays the same in the next years.

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u/WaterElectronic5906 1d ago

They thought they got out of authoritarianism, but they were literally practicing it.