There is no good reason to oppress democracy

We know that the state is fallible otherwise there would be no reason to have democracy we would just give a comprehensive mandate to the state. The reason to have democracy is to put a check on the powers of the state because the state (purportedly) has a legal monopoly on the use of force. The state is potentially very dangerous as we have seen in history and it has the power to remove freedoms from the people. So democracy is the means by which the people protect themselves from the state and it is how they retain their freedoms. Democracy is synonymous with freedom... where there is a state. If there is no state then of course democracy means nothing. If democracy is synonymous with freedom and we assume that freedom is good then there is no good reason to oppress democracy. But it is possible to argue that the first-past-the-post (fptp) system is an oppression of democracy since it does not give the voter the opportunity to vote for whomever they would like. The absence of proportionality means that so-called tactical voting is possible and rewarded which means that the typical person has not been afforded their true democratic rights and freedoms. Fptp is an oppression of democracy and so then by extension it is an oppression of freedom. There is no freedom if there is a state which does not respect democracy and so first-past-the-post is not freedom.