Frank A. Meyer – Column: Chiasso

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Everyone outside the country is talking about the winner of the SVP elections. Swiss right-wing populists, anti-European to the core, suddenly became popular throughout Europe. The EU media sighs: even the Swiss, those outspoken democratic virtues, enthusiastically vote for the right-wing extremists, not just us Germans, French and Italians.

The newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (“SZ”), the political leader of the Zurich “Tages-Anzeiger”, quotes the Swiss vice-president Marco Chiesa: “Come with me to the border town of Chiasso, you don’t want to live to eat.” Commentary by Chiesa “SZ” comments like this: “A politician is like a talking machine. And it works.”

But what actually worked? People were working. That’s how you formulate things from above. Swiss Social Democrats can do it too: “Worrying shift to the right.” Who slipped there? People slipped.

So the people are to blame for the triumph of the right. At least not the left parties in Europe. Of course not, and last but not least, of course, the Union of Right Forces, which is politicizing so far to the left that – one hopes – it will at some point have to appeal to the working people. But people are not leftists. On the far left, Studenteska relaxes in lecture halls when she is not busy with climate clergy or anti-capitalist NGOs.

The workers are somewhere else – they are seeking refuge somewhere on the right: in Germany with Alice Weidel, in France with Marine Le Pen, in Italy with Giorgia Meloni, in Switzerland with SVP.

Is this voter behavior indecent?

Of course, the Swiss People’s Party demonstrated once again during the election campaign that it knows virtually no boundaries on the right. The Anti-Racism Commission believed that it should reprimand the controversial party, which was correct in this matter, although it seemed presumptuous. Is it possible, as the left likes to do, to talk about the right-wing extremist tendencies of the SVP? Can.

And citizens are still “allowed” to vote for the SVP, i.e. mutate from SPS comrades into Blocher’s entourage? Marco Chiesa identified the motive for this mutation in his simple argument: Chiasso is a border town from which particularly large numbers of migrants flock to Switzerland.

Nobody wants to live there, says a Ticino resident who at least knows the area. Immigrants are a nuisance to the city and its residents because they are unfamiliar with the dominant Swiss culture, namely decency on the street, respect in dealing with each other, that is, polite politeness.

Everywhere in Europe, where migrants insist on living their own culture, usually the culture of the Koran, including the traditions of Muhammad and Sharia, the natives – the “indigenes” as the left likes to call such people – feel disturbed and challenged by the immigrants. To friends of the left’s sacred “Global South”, the Swiss who insist on being Swiss are not indigenous people worthy of protection, but simply “racists”. In the elections of October 22, the common dilemma of the entire European left was given the name:

Chiasso.

To look at Chiasso is to look at yourself – at your party, at your program, at your political work. And answer the question: What did we do wrong, what are we doing wrong again right now – with our complaints about SVP?

Migration from the Global South, primarily from Africa and Arabia, and therefore from the economically, culturally and politically backward world of Islam, is Europe’s biggest and deepest problem because it affects the soul of the citizens living in this Europe. or at least want to feel at home in their native and maternal countries.

The root cause of protection from strangers cannot be understood even in the deepest well of history, because it is deeper than the depths, it is the problem of humanity. That is why it should receive the greatest attention from all those who want to be responsible for shaping the present – the democratic parties and, above all, those who claim to represent the “common people”.

We are us – this is the basic feeling of the autochthonous Swiss. The left relies on this Swiss self-confidence, this consciousness of the homeland! – contradicts their world-saving ideology: The migrant is more important to us! Hint? No, this experience is especially shaping those citizens who voted for the SVP a week ago and thus once again helped Switzerland’s right-wing extremist party to victory. As this recently happened in Germany, France, Italy, and recently in Sweden.

Chiasso is Europe.

The left in the country of Chiasso therefore faces a historic challenge: to finally talk about the problem that is pushing their real voters – their native voters, so to speak – to emigrate to the right.

The left is responsible for the victories of right-wing populists.

Source: Blick