Sunday 16 December 2012

Democracy is a right-wing philosophy

Democracy is the only means by which the state can be repelled by the people who are the electorate. But with fptp (and not pr) we know that people tend to vote for the two main established parties because otherwise their vote doesn't count for anything and will be ignored. If the two main parties are 'Labour' and the 'Conservative' party then Labour tend to be on the centre-left and the Conservatives on the centre-right. So a right-wing voter will want to prevent Labour from getting into power and so they might vote for the Tories. But the problem with this is that doing so protects the fptp system which is undemocratic. Socialists favour government (economic) intervention which means that they have reasons to favour first past the post. So by voting for the Tory party right-wing voters help to reinforce the fptp system. (And by extension socialism.) The only means to 'break' the system is to reject both of the dominant fptp parties and instead vote for a party which supports proportional representation. To vote for the fptp parties is to collude with the interventionist government system. If to be right-wing is to be against government intervention then only democrats can be said to be right-wing and no right-wing person would vote for either of the fptp parties. To vote for either of the fptp parties makes someone compliant with the state and not right-wing.

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