First past the post is not liberal

The previous blog argued that 'first past the post can be more liberal than pr' but this is not true and the error can be seen in the sentence "It is sometimes good to force an unpopular liberalism on the people.". Clearly if the people do not want the liberalism being 'imposed' on them then in a fptp system they can easily reject it by voting for the opposition. It is this element of the fptp system which ensures that it is almost always oppressive. If a form of liberalism is being imposed on the people by the centre-right party the people will be able to reject that liberalism at the ballot box which means that fptp is not able to impose liberalism on the people. In fact fptp is detrimental to liberalism because voters will not be able to reject all forms of illiberalism. With fptp voters choose the party which shares their prejudices but also has prejudices of its own. With pr we get only the prejudices of the voting public but with fptp we get those prejudices as well as those of the ruling elite. If we assume (at least) one party in a fptp system attempts to be liberal then this will appeal to liberal voters but if it is in any way illiberal then it will be offensive to those voters who would have nowhere else to go. For liberalism to work in a fptp system requires that (at least) one party is inoffensive to liberals... if they are slightly offensive then liberals will likely vote to exclude them from office. The liberal (centre-right) party needs to be almost perfect not to offend the liberal base. If they are not they will lose votes to the centre-left party. With a proportional system those liberal voters are not 'lost' to an economically socialist centre-left party but instead those votes remain in the centre ground. Fptp forces liberals to vote for a centre-left (socialist) party because if the alternative is not (close to) perfect they will be unelectable to the liberal mind. Fptp sets too high a bar to reach (makes it too difficult) for the centre-right party to attract the support of liberals. It tends to result in centre-left socialism due to the lack of choice.