Sunday, 20 May 2012

First past the post is (still) government

No anarchist is in support of fptp because it removes the ability of the rest of the mafia to challenge the main parties. Anarchy is liberal which means that we can challenge the claims made by authoritarians. It is amusing to think that conservatives opposed to pr consider themselves proponents of liberty when pr is liberty. There is no reason to be opposed to pr and liberalism. To be an opponent of pr is to be an anti-capitalist since pr promotes choice... even within the mafia. Liberalism is not bad for the mafia just as it is not bad for the rest of us... we have nothing to fear from a liberalised (pr) government it just makes it easier to remove. It is better to be given the vote than to be denied it and fptp is still (a form of) democracy. The government (mafia) is no more legitimised and therefore no more powerful under pr than under fptp. Pr does nothing to legitimise the government there is a government even when we have fptp so we might as well have pr. Fptp is not anarchy. First past the post is only good for those parts of the mafia resistant to liberalism. Pr is good news for the mafia because it ends the mafia.

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