Switzerland was never really democratic until quite recently

Came across this watching some ww2 content. In 1935 Switzerland wasn’t that democratic, thats more of a myth constantly pushed by our current day right wing blowhards (the SVP, which invented the AfD basically). There was a lack of women voting rights, there were "Verdingkinder" and " Poor people". So basically a lack of respect for basic human rights, which continues until this day. It was only put to bed partially (in 2018) with the total failure of the iniative "Swiss law instead of foreign judges" which tried to put the national law above international law (it’s complicated, but people who know more about laws than I do were arguing that this initiative would have made an appeal to the European court of human rights basically pointless).

I’d especially like to point out this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenstimmrecht_in_der_Schweiz and this: Married women in Switzerland have only been allowed to open their own bank account without their husband’s signature since 1988!

So the earliest we can start talking about a real democracy is 1988, and the attitudes disregarding the poor and the socially disadvantaged / disabled survive to this day

absolutely horrendous, Switzerland wasn’t anything close to a democracy before that happened