Wednesday 28 November 2012

Good governments are proportional

The first-past-the-post voting system forces liberals (either social or economic...) to endorse authoritarians... or to risk losing their vote. It is not 'normal' to have elections (government is wrong) so if there are elections it is natural that care is taken to ensure proportionality. (If the government is nice.) If there is voting it is strange not to guarantee proportionality. Governments are weird and bad if they are not proportional. If a government seeks to be bad and to do harm then fptp is the best system (it makes it harder for the voters to be free). If the government wants to be sure that voters have the best chance at fair representation (to be free) then the voting system should be proportional. If the government doesn't want to be bad then it should have a proportional voting system. The government might have bad intentions if it insists on fptp. The government can show it has good intentions by being proportional... only a bad government would fail to be proportional. A lack of proportionality is proof that the government does not have good intentions.

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