Sunday 16 September 2012

First past the post cannot suppress the truth

First past the post enables the government (the ruling parties) to suppress public opinion in an oppressive way. This is an authoritarian dogma which assumes the establishment have a higher insight into what is good. The only viable way to form a government is democracy... to have a (non-democratic) government elite is illegitimate so fptp is illegitimate for the same reasons that tyranny and dictatorship is illegitimate. The problem with fptp is the same as the problem with dictatorship. Fptp is a form of dictatorship. Public opinion is virtue and truth whether we have a democracy or not... it is not because we have a democracy that popular opinion is truth but just because there is no other way to get to the truth. What is popular is true and democracy is the means by which the government is controlled by truth. Fptp suppreses (truth and) democracy. There is no reason to suppress popular truth... which is what fptp does.

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