Wednesday 5 December 2012

Fptp is good if the voters are to the left of Labour

Duverger's law proves that (to most people) the government is not magic. If the government is (held to be) magic people would not vote tactically out of fear of the opposition party... they would just vote in a naive manner and not be concerned about the outcome. The existence of tactical voting indicates that the government is mortal in which case we can say that fptp is a problem. If the government is not magic then taxation is (still) theft by definition. We know from the prevalence of tactical voting that only a small number of people are not anarchists and think the government is magic... the rest vote tactically. Duverger's law proves that most people are not sympathetic to the two government parties... tactical voting is evidence that most people are anarchists in which case democracy is preferable. Fptp is not a problem only if most of the voters are statists... but we know from the way they vote that most people want to get rid of the government. But even if this is not true and most voters are statists... it is hard to see how fptp is an obstacle to their socialism. If the voters are statists then both of the fptp parties (including Labour) would be to their right for fptp to be an obstacle. If the voters are to the left of Labour then fptp prevents tyranny by democracy... otherwise it prevents people who want a small government from getting what they want.

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