Saturday 27 July 2013

First past the post advocates are not arrogant

We might think that it is arrogant for a person to advocate the use of first past the post because they are making the assumption that to choose from only two parties is adequate. But in reality their mistake is not one of arrogance but rather one of insanity. The difference is that people who advocate or defend first past the post are doing so not because they are defending its virtues but instead because they fail to see what is wrong with it... they fail to see the liberal advantages of a more proportional system.

They fail to see that there is more government and more (unwanted) socialism if voters are denied full democracy. It is not an error of arrogance to defend first past the post but ignorance or insanity.

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