Monday, 21 May 2012
There is something wrong with fptp
If democracy is mob rule then fptp is worse than democracy because with fptp it is possible to rule with very much fewer than half of the vote. Fptp is worse than democracy it is rule by minority. There is no post. At least with other forms of (preference) voting the winning candidate requires support from most of the electorate. If we do not have power allocated in proportion to votes (pr) then we have minority rule... fptp is government by the least small minority. The least small minority takes (is given) all the power. There is no reason not to allocate representation according to votes... there is no reason to give it all to the party which comes first. There is no reason to have fptp. It is more natural to allocate power equally according to the number of votes received. People who dislike fptp have a justified complaint.
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