{"id":545,"date":"2012-12-31T22:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-12-31T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:56:52","slug":"where-the-swiss-place-their-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2012\/where-the-swiss-place-their-hopes","title":{"rendered":"Where the Swiss place their hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

swissfuture<\/a> and weiterdenken.ch<\/a> have again conducted their end-of-year survey to determine where the Swiss place their hopes and how optimistic they are for 2013.\u00c2\u00a0 Simply put, we’re optimistic; we’re more optimistic about Switzerland than about the rest of the world, and at the same time, place our hopes squarely at the feet of…<\/p>\n

…Barack Obama<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s enough to make me pessimistic about Switzerland.<\/p>\n

As an average Swiss, my top ten sources of hope are
\n62% — the many unsung heroes of everyday life
\n43% — Barack Obama
\n41% — myself
\n39% — my spouse or partner
\n27% — God
\n23% — my children \/ grandchildren
\n23% — Jesus Christ
\n17% — my parents \/ grandparents
\n13% — the Dalai Lama
\n10% — Alain Berset (the youngest, best-looking, and most recently elected member of the federal council)<\/p>\n

Why we place our hopes in someone paid to look out for the interests of a foreign country, or in someone who embodies the identity and culture of a central Asian region, eludes me.\u00c2\u00a0 Any ideas?<\/p>\n

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swissfuture and weiterdenken.ch have again conducted their end-of-year survey to determine where the Swiss place their hopes and how optimistic they are for 2013.\u00c2\u00a0 Simply put, we’re optimistic; we’re more optimistic about Switzerland than about the rest of the world, and at the same time, place our hopes squarely at the feet of… …Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s enough to make me pessimistic about Switzerland. As an average Swiss, my top ten sources of hope are 62% — the many unsung heroes of everyday life 43% — Barack Obama 41% — myself 39% — my spouse or partner 27% — God 23% — my children \/ grandchildren 23% — Jesus Christ 17% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}