Democracy is better than first past the post

Part of the reason governments use democracy is that the people will not tolerate them if they do not use democracy so democracy is not popular with the state, necessarily. The people tolerate the presence of the state only if it is at least partially democratic and the reason that democracy is desired by the people is that it is anti-authoritarian. The people want democracy because it is, to a degree, like anarchy in that the government is not the arbitrary source of authority, the people can sometimes reject the government. So the government is forced to be in some sense anarchist because the people will not otherwise tolerate it.

Democracy is like anarchy but the first-past-the-post system is not fully-democratic and as a result it is only partially anarchist, and partially authoritarian. The people have been tricked we might say by accepting fptp given that the people demand anti-authoritarian democracy. The people have been convinced by the government that fptp is like anarchy when it is not. The government too, to a degree, think that fptp is anarchist and so then they deduce that the extent of freedom being given by the government is what the people want. The government, since they think fptp is anarchy, deduce that the people do not want more freedom than is being offered by fptp when in fact this is not the case and fptp is oppressive. The people want as much freedom as democracy allows but fptp is only slightly democratic, not fully-democratic and so then the people are oppressed by the absence of full democracy.