Thursday 14 February 2013

Proportional representation is innocent

It is logical that the government would choose to use first-past-the-post since the government do not like democracy. The purpose of democracy is to make the state accountable to the people but they are instinctively opposed to accountability... or they would not be the state. People do not go into politics to listen to people... they go into politics to tell people their ideas. So the state doesn't like democracy and it is perfectly natural and consistent for the state to support fptp. It is strange that apparently anti-socialist politicians would be willing to participate in fptp elections given that it is almost impossible for them to win. First past the post tends to exclude politicians who want freedom from the political establishment. Fptp is designed to the advantage of socialists and the left so it is strange that a liberal would participate. But we can think of liberals as being politically innocent and so fptp falsely excludes innocent people from politics. Liberals and their favoured voting system (proportional representation) are innocent and so fptp falsely restricts the freedoms of innocent people.

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