Thursday 31 January 2013

The Tories cannot support fptp

The Tories are hurting themselves if they choose to support fptp. The fptp voting system helps the left because it rewards collectivism and voting for a large party. This means that fptp is detrimental to the right and political ideologies which are sympathetic to the individual. Fptp is bad for the right so it makes little sense for the Tories to support it... even if it favours their party... it is better for the country to be free than for the Tories to get a few more votes (and still lose). So when the Tories are asking the voter to give them a vote they are asking for us to support an illogical party. It is not stupid for a left-wing party such as the Labour party to support fptp because their voters do not have a problem with supporting Labour... whereas more people on the right find it hard to be loyal to the Tories. Fptp is not a problem for the left and so only the right-wing party (in a fptp-duopoly) is being stupid. In a fptp system where both of the main parties support fptp it is only the right-wing party which is being stupid... since fptp is bad for them. And they are asking voters to vote for a transparently stupid party. People do not like voting for stupid parties and so fptp is harmful to the chances of the Tory party. Fptp harms the right because it makes them look stupid. If voters don't vote for stupid parties fptp elections will never be won by the right. For the right to do well in a fptp election requires the voters to be blind to the stupidity of the right... if voters are stupid the right might do well in a fptp election... but they are not stupid... especially over time. Voters are not stupid enough to vote for the Tories if they support fptp. (Despite the threat of Labour.) If the Tories support fptp they will never be elected... they need to switch to pr to do well. The Tories can never do well if they continue to support fptp.

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