Wednesday 26 December 2012

The right is loyal to the Tories only because of fptp

The left will do well under fptp because collectivism and voting for a large party is consistent with their outlook. Fptp is a problem for the right alone because voters on the right tend to be less comfortable voting for a large party and do not like the sense of responsibility required to vote for the Tories in a fptp election. It is less of a problem for the left to vote Labour than it is for the right to vote for the Tories because people on the right are more individualistic and have more of an objection to being obligated to act in certain ways. The right are more politically disloyal and rebellious and so fptp favours the left. It is strange then that most of the complaints to do with the voting system come from the left. The Tories apparently do not care that the left have an electoral advantage if we use fptp. It would be normal for the right to be outraged and object to this state of affairs and yet they are generally silent. The right is loyal to the Tories because of first past the post and so when the Tory party is threatened in any way (even with pr) the Tory right perceive this as a threat to the right when in reality it is a liberation of the right. Their hostility to proportional representation indicates they are not aware that their loyalty to the Tories is derived from first past the post. Tory opposition to proportional representation is evidence of their ignorance of how first past the post works. If Tories were knowledgeable about how the voting system works they would support pr. The right is loyal to the Tories (only) because of first past the post so their opposition to pr is unfounded.

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