Friday, 4 May 2012

Proportional Representation is reality

A common assumption is to assume that people that advocate pr are advocates of the government because part of the unpopularity of government is derived from fptp. If fptp is remedied... so the argument goes then government will be less unpopular which allows for greater socialism. But this is a false argument. We are not protected from socialism because the government is offensive but instead because many voters do not want it. It is not because of fptp that some people oppose socialism... they are ideologically opposed and would remain so even with pr. It is not good to be a liberal because it offends socialists... offending people is not the aim. There is no point offending people (as fptp does) if there is not a justification for it. Just because fptp is offensive doesn't mean that it is correct... communism was offensive.

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