First past the post is a form of government

Democracy is concerned with enabling the people to reject government. It is being able to say 'no' which characterises the nature of freedom and democracy enables the people to reject government. But if we do not have proportional elections this means that generally people will be inclined to vote for one of the main parties for fear of their vote otherwise being wasted. This means that they are able to reject only one political party (one set of politicians) as opposed to being able to reject many. If they are able to reject many (as with pr) this will give them more freedom from the government... because being able to reject something is to be free of it. First past the post is bad for the same reasons that government itself is bad... it means that our choices and freedoms are diminished. If there is less choice there is more government by definition (government is a lack of choice) and so if there is fptp there is more government. Fptp is bad if government is bad.