I knew some people who lived in Switzerland for a bit and they joked that it was a libertarian paradise because you can drink and smoke when you're a teenager, the age of consent is 16 and everyone is issued a gun as part of their military service. I didn't expect anyone to take it seriously....
Afaik Switzerland does have a unique system of federated democratic governance, one of the oldest democratic systems in Europe. The downside is that women weren't able to vote in some Swiss cantons until the 90s.
What these people do is they take something that's vaguely true or at least has a kernel of truth in it and they give it the most sensationalistic and negative spin possible. So it can't be "there were upsides and downsides to the switchover from incandescent bulbs", it has to be "the greatest uglification in history", and anyone who points out the energy saving advantages of LEDs and fluorescent lightbulbs is just trying to Silence You and smear you. It's so wretched.