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by IG_Semmelweiss 1268 days ago
Yet switzerland has the oldest continuing government in the world.

Meanwhile, we had at least 1 close brush with failure (civil war). And counting.

You need to take care of factions and you need big, heated arguments at the local level. So they dont end up scaled up at the federal level.

Otherwise those scaled up "solutions" ends up massive problems, such as the sudden reversal of abortion, foreign interventions, and housing/ credit meltdowns due to federal subsidies of mortgage insurance.