Saturday 1 December 2012

First past the post prevents freedom

First past the post removes the option typically available to voters to choose to have no government at all. (It is possible to vote for an anarchist.) If one of only two political parties can win it means that both of these parties will be statist parties. Statists will inevitably control the two dominant parties in a fptp system. To give voters pr is to enable them to choose to have no government. Pr gives people the option to reject government... which fptp does not. Proportionality can mean anarchy but fptp always means statism. There is no possibility of freedom if there is not proportional representation. Only pr offers freedom. There is no chance for freedom with fptp.

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