Sunday 18 November 2012

People choose freedom where possible

An anarchist who doesn't like pr doesn't realise that with more democracy comes less government. Such anarchists falsely deduce that since (big) government comes from democracy under fptp then more democracy will lead to more government. But this is not the case. Despite big government coming from democratic fptp more democracy is still good. (Fptp is better than outright dictatorship.) It is possible for pr to be good even if fptp is bad. It is not because we want things to be more like fptp that reformists want pr... it is because we want things to be less like they are now. It is not the lack of government which makes people want to change the voting system. These (anti-pr) anarchists do not realise that people will vote for Labour (the party of the left) despite not supporting all of their policies merely to get rid of the Tories. Those voters will vote for less government under pr... fptp 'forces' voters to vote for more government than they want. This is the nature of tactical voting. If people have more choice they will choose freedom and less government. If they can people will choose freedom.

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