Monday 19 November 2012

Fptp is a problem in itself

With proportional representation the power goes to no one with fptp the power goes to the winner alone. Fptp aggregates the power to the person who wins the race but with pr the power remains with the voters... there is no concentration of power with pr. Since it is not necessary for power to be concentrated (with the government) then fptp is not necessary. If government is a concentration of power then fptp is government and pr is anarchy. With pr there is no government because power is not concentrated. People who like and approve of the government naturally see no problem with fptp because they see no problem with this concentration of power... people who are anarchists immediately see the problem with fptp. Only statists are blind to the problem of (don't hate) fptp. Fptp is not a remedy to the problems of government and democracy. If there is a government then it must be democratic. If democracy is OK (not a contradiction) then pr is OK. Only statists like fptp. The two-party system which emerges with the use of fptp is a form of statism. If statism is power not held evenly then fptp is statism. The same things wrong with the government (power held in the hands of too few people) are wrong with fptp. Fptp is a problem for the same reasons that government is a problem.

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