Saturday 3 August 2013

First past the post is an anarchist system

If we are an anarchist then we take the view that nothing the government does is good. This means that it would not be a surprise for us to discover that the government uses an unfair voting system. An anarchist would expect the government to cheat at elections even abolishing them if possible. Since it has been established that the first-past-the-post system of voting isn't fair to all voters then someone who supports the government and thinks they are fair would be shocked and surprised (to find that the government use it). But an anarchist is not surprised that the government uses an unfair system of voting. In many ways we can think of the presence of fptp as being a strong physical confirmation of the malice of the state. If the state is good it would use pr so then since pr is not in use we can deduce that the state is evil. The fptp system is consistent with the state being evil.

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