Thursday 28 June 2012

Pr is very similar to anarchy and direct democracy

Direct democracy is like organised anarchy with no presidents because people are able to vote directly on laws. Proportional representation (pr) is preferable to fptp because is it more like direct democracy... if there are multiple representatives this means that minorities can find representation and the problem of presidentialism is diminished. Pr is better than fptp because it is more like anarchy and direct democracy. If there are representatives then the greater their number the more like direct democracy the system becomes. To make representative democracy less authoritarian we should have a greater number of representatives in each seat. Tactical voting is evidence that the voting system is not direct. Pr means you can trust your representative to vote as you would vote... with fptp we choose only the party closest to our views.

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