More past the post is an improvement on fptp

Just because proportional representation is (a form of government and) democratic doesn't make it intrinsically bad... given that it is always being compared with fptp. Proponents of pr are not advocating it in a vacuum they are advocating it only in the context of the existing fptp system. Compared against nothing pr is bad (since it is government and government is unwanted) but compared to fptp it is preferable. Fptp is not the absence of democracy... pr is a less bad alternative to (government by) fptp. Pr is bad but fptp is yet worse.