Thursday, 24 January 2013

Voting for the Tories doesn't work

It doesn't make sense for people on the right to be in favour of the fptp voting system because using it is helpful to the left. The left thrive using a system whereby the alternative to the centre-left party is perceived as a party which is entirely comfortable with business and capitalism. If there is proportional representation there is more nuance in the right-wing choices but with fptp we are apparently only able to vote for a single monolithic party which might lead to a complete abandonment of the people (to the market) by the state. It is not good for the right to force voters into voting for their single fptp party using the fptp system because they likely will not do so. Given the choice between some government and no government people generally want some government... and so fptp is a problem for the right. It would be better for the right to reject fptp and instead promote proportional representation but the centre-right party is often strongly welded to the principle of first past the post. In this case (where the centre-right party will not abandon fptp) it is best for voters on the right to reject the established centre-right party and support a minority party that will change the voting system. It is best for right-wing voters to switch from the Tories (who will never drop their preference for fptp) to the Liberal Democrats. The right can never win if they keep trying to use fptp. Only with pr can the right protect themselves from government socialism.

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