Proportional representation is inevitable

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".


The paradox of government and power is that wherever there is power there is always instability. We can think of power itself as a form of stability so in nature wherever there is power (and stability) there is powerlessness... wherever there is stability there is powerlessness and instability. And this is a form of paradox... there can be no power and no stability... not even a government.

Communism is a form of (power and) government. We see that wherever it is instigated it will eventually fall and fail. Capitalism (in contrast) can be thought of as the antithesis of communism and it is a form of 'government' whereby there is effectively no government and so there is nothing to fail. Capitalism is stable because it has no central power base. There is nothing to contradict. (It is intrinsically unstable... and therefore stable.) There is nothing to collapse. It has already collapsed. Power is distributed to members of the market... so in a sense no one has any power. Capitalism is stable because it is by nature inherently unstable. Only unstable things can pertain through time... such as capitalism. Communism is not unstable like capitalism so (paradoxically) it cannot be stable and survive and so it is then unstable like everything else. Because communism is not unstable... it is unstable. There is nothing which can be permanently stable.

The voting system known as first-past-the-post is also a kind of stability like communism in that it provides a rigid two-party structure for government (and is therefore in some sense rigid and permanent). But since nothing can be stable for all time apart from instability (everything must be unstable) we know that eventually fptp will collapse like communism. It will collapse either when one of the two dominant parties gets overwhelmed and controlled by people who believe in a proportional system or when the voters simply reject fptp as a model and support a third party (or fourth) which guarantees fair voting. This process is inevitable even though it can take a very long time.