Thursday 12 September 2013

Fptp is a subsidy which should not be used

There can be no government which uses first past the post because without using the most democratic system the government has no legitimacy. First past the post is not as democratic as it could be and so the government has no right to use it and a government which does use it has no right to exist. Only governments which use proportional representation (or a similarly representative system (assumed to be synonymous in all further discussion here)) have a right to exist. If proportional representation is not in use then the voter has a right to claim that they are not represented and hence that the government is illegitimate. If the government is good it will not use first past the post and so (since government is good) governments can only use pr. The only reason for a government or a political party to use first past the post is the fear of losing power due to the loss of tactical votes... which means the loss of power due to the use of a more fair system. So the only motivation to use fptp is malign. Parties which use and advocate fptp are doing so only for their own interests and in the case of governments this is illegitimate (the only reason to have a government is for good reasons). Only bad politicians would knowingly use fptp and since all politicians are good or useless then politicians cannot use fptp. Fptp gives an advantage to the big parties for which there is no justification and so it should not be used.

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