Wednesday 25 September 2013

Proportional representation is good for the people

The purpose of democracy is to give power to the people because it is preferable that power it taken from the state and given to the people. If too much power rests in the hands of the state then full communism results which ends with starvation and poverty. Since there is either government or the electorate (and no third status of people exists) then what gives power to the state must take it from the voters. If the voters are enfranchised then the state is not. If first-past-the-post is good for the state (which it is) then it is bad for the people since there is no other entity (the middle is excluded). All democracy is good for the people and bad for the state which is why proportional representation is better for the people than fptp... due to it being inherently more democratic. Proportional representation is more democratic than fptp because it enables voters to be represented by someone who much more closely matches their views and interests. And so pr is better for the people.

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