Tuesday 22 January 2013

Democracy is anarchy

We have no right to govern if we do not have the consent of the people... but in a sense to have the consent of the people is then not to govern at all. If the people have given their consent then the government is acting in their own interests and is not an obstacle to them and so we can say that there isn't really a government. Governments exist only when there is no consent. Government is slavery and if there is consent then we are not a slave so there is no government. To have the consent of the governed is an oxymoron because the governed have not given their consent by definition. If there is a democracy then the people have given their consent and so we can describe a democracy as anarchy. Democracy is anarchy but if there is fptp and not proportional representation then we do not have democracy or anarchy. Fptp is government because it is not democracy. Pr is democracy and so with pr there is no government and there is anarchy. Pr is anarchy because the people have given their consent to the state. If the state is not an obstacle to the people (when it is elected) then we can think of this as being (to have) no government at all. There is no government if there is a democracy.

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