Saturday 22 December 2012

Pr is the only alternative to Labour

If the state doesn't trust the electorate with proportional elections (and instead restricts them to fptp) they will vote tactically and not for whom they truly want. The result of this is that people coalesce around the two main parties which means that the liberating mechanism of democracy (in constraining the state) is thwarted. Democracy is the means by which the people are able to constrain and hold the state to account. If democracy is restricted to first past the post tactical voting will result which means the state is less restricted and more liberated than it was. Fptp is good for the state because people don't vote for whom they like... instead for whom they fear the least. If people can't vote for whom they like the state will exploit this situation and there will be (unwanted) socialism. A large part of the socialism perpetrated by the state under fptp has no democratic mandate and would not exist without fptp. Pr reduces socialism to only that required by the people. Without pr we cannot know if the socialism being provided by the state has a democratic mandate. It is possible that some of the socialism under fptp is unwanted. Only with pr is it possible for us to know that the socialism provided by the state has a mandate. Fptp is good only for (the kind of) socialists who do not seek a mandate. It is not good for socialists who seek a mandate for their actions. If democracy is important to the (socialist) state then there is no alternative than to have pr. Libertarian advocates of fptp do not realise that without pr people will vote tactically (and not for the Tories)... and that in general this will be favourable to (Labour and) the left. It is a contradiction to assume that the right are willing to have the discipline to vote (tactically) for the Tories in a fptp election which is why pr is preferable. Tactical voting is less of an issue for the left because for them there is no contradiction in voting for the monolithic Labour party... since it matches their big-state ideology. For the right tactical voting is more of a concern and it means the right do not get the same levels of tactical support that exist on the left. The right do not like to vote tactically which is why fptp is a problem. The Tories are going to keep losing under fptp which means pr is the only means by which the country can be free of unchosen and undemocratic socialism. The Tories cannot win under fptp which means proportional representation is the only means by which Labour will not have control. Only pr can stop Labour. The only choice is to have Labour constantly winning under fptp or to have proportional representation.

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