Tuesday 4 December 2012

The only kind of government is fptp

We can think of fptp as being somewhere between outright (proportional) democracy and having no democracy at all. It is kind of a compromise. But if the government doesn't like democracy it has no obligation to offer us even fptp. To be consistent the government should provide either full democracy (pr) or no democracy at all. Since the government doesn't provide pr we can deduce that it is against democracy in which case there should not even be fptp but no democracy at all. But in that case there would be no government. The governments gets its mandate only from democracy so (to be consistent) the government should either introduce pr or collapse. It makes no sense for there to be fptp alone. It would be better for there not to even be fptp... it would be better if the government seeks no mandate at all from the people. If it is possible for the government to survive without giving people full democracy then there is no reason for it to give any democracy and it should cancel (even) fptp elections... to be consistent. If the government thinks democracy is bad it should cancel even fptp elections... otherwise it should introduce full pr elections. To hold fptp elections is to make a partial and not full concession to democracy. The government survives only because of fptp... pr is a kind of anarchy and if there is no democracy at all then there would be no government so it is only because of the existence of fptp that there can be a government.

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