It is commonly supposed that first past the post prevents big government but this is false. Fptp does not prevent big government... just because people are scared of Labour doesn't mean they will vote for the Tories. If anti-Labour votes are certain to go to the Tories then fptp would be fine. It is because not all anti-Labour voters vote for the Tories that there is a problem with fptp...
We can assume most people do not want big government... otherwise there would be no point in having a democracy in the first place. So government is undemocratic. If there is not enough democracy there will be big government.
We can think of even an anarchist society as being 'democratic' in some way because people are left alone. If anarchy is the full expression of democracy then democracy is always a good thing.
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