Monday 3 December 2012

First past the post is anarchy

An undemocratic government has no mandate. To have a mandate the government must be elected democratically... if there is no democracy there is no government (governments require a mandate) and there is then anarchy... so in a sense a lack of democracy is not a bad thing. If we can say that to have no democracy is to have anarchy then a lack of democracy is good. It is bad to have democracy if democracy gives a mandate to the government. (Which enables the government to exist.) We can think of fptp as a two-party tyranny which is not democratic and in that case fptp is anarchy... since it gives no mandate to the government. Fptp is anarchy because it is not democratic and democracy is government.

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