Friday 15 February 2013

If there is more choice (as with pr) there is less state

If we have democracy and a state it is not intelligent to deprive people of the right to have proportional representation. If we have democracy then there is a state and to have first-past-the-post does not contradict that fact. To have fptp doesn't mean we have no state... we still have a state if we are using fptp and so it makes no sense to deprive people of more choice. If people are given more choice then the government will be smaller because people do not like the state... it is not chosen. Democracy is the means by which the people get to reduce and restrain the state so if we diminish the power of democracy then we help the state. If we have fptp then people can choose only the least bad of the two main parties and this means that the state is not sufficiently constrained. Pr doesn't oppress the voter but fptp does oppress the voter and if there is a state (as there is with fptp) this is not what we want to do. Fptp oppresses the voter and is not anarchy so it helps the state. If there is not anarchy we want to enhance democracy because it is the only thing which prevents totalitarianism. If there is a state then freedom comes only from democracy so if there is democracy we want the most democratic kind. More democracy is always good unless there is no government but if there is no government then it is meaningless to even discuss the issue. There is no advantage to have fptp over pr because democracy is the means by which the people constrain the state and so to oppress democracy (as fptp does) is only to oppress the people not the state. In a democracy the people are not the state and that which oppresses the people protects the state. Democracy is accountability and it is never good to enable the state to be unaccountable. There is no reason to protect the state as fptp does... compared with pr. Pr would expose the state to more accountability and more democracy. If fptp is not anarchy then it is helpful to the state. Anarchy is freedom and choice (wealth) and so pr is more like anarchy than fptp. First past the post is a form of poverty. The state resists choice... if there is more choice there is less state and so with pr there is less state than there is with fptp. Fptp reduces choice which increases the state.

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