Democracy is bad for the government

The problem with any democratic political system is that an assumption of the people being aligned with the government is false. People generally regard the government as a required evil... as they should... which means that when we vote we are more concerned with being able to remove and reject bad and oppressive politicians than we are with being able to promote good politicians. This means that the positive assumption that politicians are good and we must choose the best of them is false. (As is demonstrated by the prevalence of tactical voting.) There is no one outside the politicians and the people so it is a closed system which means that ultimately it is concerned with antagonism. The best political and democratic system is one whereby the people can best express their dissatisfaction with the government. In short... people want to vote negatively (to be left alone) more than they want to vote positively (to get free stuff). So then people want to vote tactically. The nature of the first-past-the-post voting system is often criticised for being tactical but the reality is that it is insufficiently tactical. With a two-party system (as is prevalent where fptp is used) we may vote tactically for one party primarily to keep the other out but we are still voting for one of the major parties which we may not like. Our 'tactical' choice is reduced to the least bad of (only) the main two parties and not the least bad of many parties. So first past the post doesn't offer the same tactical opportunities as is offered by other voting systems. Put simply fptp makes it difficult to remove bad politicians. (Because they may be in both parties.) The reason to have democracy is in case the people do not like the politicians in which case we would want to have the system which best enables the people to remove an oppressive government. First past the post (fptp) is the system which is the least able to do this because it offers the voter the least possible choice. Fptp is the least democratic system and therefore it is the most favourable to politicians and the political class. Politicians don't like democracy but not everything that is liked by politicians is good... the reason to have elections and democracy in the first place is that the political class do not like it and it gives the people a voice. Democracy is a requirement otherwise there will be tyranny. Weak democracy (such as fptp) leads to strong government which is bad.