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LeroyoJenkins t1_ituy091 wrote

> Respondents were asked whether they would say things in their country are going in the right direction or have gone off on the wrong track.

This doesn't make any sense for Switzerland, to the point that it is risible.

The "Leader" isn't actually a leader. It is just a Primus inter pares cerimonial position, which each member of the Federal Council (which collectively is the actual head of the executive power and the head of state) holds for a year, based on a rotation.

It confers no additional powers, and only someone who has no idea how the Swiss political system works would consider them "leader of the country".

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Crapital_Prunishment t1_itv07fj wrote

I kind of think the U.S. needs to adopt this kind of rotation. We have this massive problem of being forced to vote for the lesser of two evils. My opinion is that biggest reason we have this problem is that we give power to those who campaign for it. It takes a level of narcissism to decide to be a public figure. Narcissists are attracted to power, Thus American politics is filled with sociopaths who want to monetize suffering.

Not every American politician is like this, but enough are, that it makes it very easy to generalize and get turned off of politics altogether. Which is still a win for the sociopaths.

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LeroyoJenkins t1_itv1hdh wrote

>I kind of think the U.S. needs to adopt this kind of rotation.

It is more complicated than that. The Federal Council has 7 members, from ALL significant parties. It is also based on collegialism: all members of the Council have to stand behind its decisions, no matter how they voted internally.

In the US, this would be, picking a random example, like having a Federal Council with Trump, MTG, Ted Cruz, Biden, Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Schumer.

And after the council voted on forgiving student debt, Ted Cruz would have to go and publicly announce that the council voted to forgive student debt, why that is the right thing to do and why he defends it - even if he personally is against it.

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