Claim: Major policy decisions should always be left to politicians and other government experts.
Reason: Politicians and other government experts are more informed and thus have better judgment and perspective than do members of the general public.
Should major policy decisions always be left to politicians and other government experts? I admit that, due to diverse thinking directions and specific moral issues, leaving every major police decision to politicians and other government experts may not always satisfy, or even harm, the public. However, given the consideration that not only politicians and government experts are informed and insightful elites, but also leaving those decisions to the general public can cause more severe consequences, I still maintain that significiant policy decisions should always be left to politicians and other government experts.
To begin with, politicians and other government experts have unparalleled advantages over the general public to make major policy decisions. More specifically, it is unassailable that nearly all politicians and other government specialists are elites with excellent abilities. Most of them graduated from famous universities with relatively well-established knowledge systems and insightful perspectives to support them in making wise policy decisions. In addition, within the political platform, their political positions and influence can gain them more inclusive information. In other words, more comprehensive or even sectary data are opened to them, facilitating them to make wiser decisions. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal can be an excellent example to support the above statement. Combining what he learned from courses and other economic specialists, Roosevelt realized the incorrigible weaknesses of a free market, driving him to propose an imaginative combination of governmental regulation and free marketing strategies. Moreover, based on his unique president’s power, he can collect comprehensive statistical data to verify and modify his policies timely, promoting the success of the New Deal. Therefore, compared with the information-limited and even cognitively deficient general public, politicians and other government experts can be better decision-makers to a large degree.
However, I acknowledge that, to a certain degree, completely leaving major policy decisions to politicians and other government specialists can lead to some questions. While possessing higher political abilities and better judgement, it is hard to ensure that every politician can maintain a high moral level. That is to say, there exist, more or less, politicians in each country who abuse their power to earn money by harming the people’s interests. For instance, after receiving a large amount of money, some politicians re-approved factories with a serious population to run. In addition, because of the inherent nature of objectivity, politicians usually make decisions that serve the long-term interests of nations, which inevitably may not always align with the immediate concerns of the people. For example, Shanghai's strict garbage sorting policy is conducive to the sustainable development of society, but it has brought problems to citizens' lives in the short term.
Nevertheless, do the questions mentioned above prove that politicians and other government experts cannot always be the major political decision-makers? From the practical perspective, the answer is no since if we sometimes let the general public be the major policy decision-markers, more troubles will be created. Firstly, the opinions of the public can hardly be identical. While the public may apply a vote to make final decisions, the winner does not have the force power, and the loser may seek several excuses, such as a black curtain, to ask for re-vote or just not cooperate. In addition, even if the public unites their opinions, how to exert or regulate can be a new issue. Obviously, as the policy maker, the public should decide the details of exertion methods, and they should choose someone to lead. However, in this way, they are at risk of creating a new government and harming the stability and development of the current society.
In sum, while I admit it may be imperfect, considering of the accessibility of information, the comprehensiveness of knowledge, and feasibility, it is better to always leave the major political decisions to politicians and other government experts than involve the general public. After all, there is no country in the world where the government does not decide on major policies. Moreover, in the future, the government can reduce the aforementioned possible problems through public monitoring policies.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, well, while, after all, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, in other words, more or less, to begin with, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 12.9106741573 232% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3802.0 2235.4752809 170% => OK
No of words: 672.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.65773809524 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09145979004 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.20201443955 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 332.0 215.323595506 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494047619048 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1218.6 704.065955056 173% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 16.0 4.38483146067 365% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.4431032374 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.785714286 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.96428571429 5.21951772744 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.513594663474 0.243740707755 211% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147346659239 0.0831039109588 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.158172767886 0.0758088955206 209% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.329305581893 0.150359130593 219% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.122981221635 0.0667264976115 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.8420337079 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.84 12.1639044944 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 188.0 100.480337079 187% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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