As the leader of a democratic government, public opinion is of great importance and sometimes even the foundation of a government. The government is elected by people and served for its people. To serve its people, political leaders, in order to reach consensus, does have to yield to public opinion sometimes. If she refuses to do so, she is eroding her popular support which is crucial for her political leadership. Moreover, I believe that yielding to public opinions is not a compromise, but a thing that leaders must do. Anything important for a nation cannot be decided by leaders themselves. Since most political decisions, for example, how much taxes we should pay or how much medical care we could receive, are closely related to every people’s daily life, it is crucial to involve people into the decision process. Without listening to public idea, a leader may make false decisions that harm the nation as a whole. In history, it has caused much tragedy by seemingly sticking to a principle. For example, in Soviet Union, blind commitment to ‘socialist principles’ caused hunger, repression, and even massacre. Under the guidelines of socialism, what its ordinary people were hoping and thinking was largely ignored, which in turn cause the final collapse of the socialism regime. To conclude, public opinion, to this extent, is the basis of a democratic government. Without listening to its people, leaders will not only lose support but also turn their nations into abyss.
However, public opinions are changeable, divided, and easily to be misled. Nowadays, our world is largely fragmented- different groups of people claiming different values or interest. In a nation, people are prone to change their beliefs or be instigated to be more radical than they used to be. The Brexit, Presidential Election in 2016, or the rise of nationalism in China and Russia all witnessed how people may fall into the irrational camps and abandon the possibilities to exchange their viewpoints peacefully. Under such circumstances, if a political leader is to yield to whatever the public believe without committing to a principle or guidelines, her policies will be similarly changeable and inconsistent. She will, for example, forbid abortion this week, and legalized LGBT marriage next week. Such scenario, is quite ridiculous for a nation, because the role of political leader is supposed to gather different views and reach a consensus among different interest group, not to yield to different claims without considering their consequences. Moreover, without certain consistent principles and objectives, the national politics will be degraded into the ‘tyranny of the majority’, where everyone, every group could have a say. It may sometimes even cause tragedies, as French thinker Tocqueville argues about 200 years ago during French revolution. The values, ideas, and principles guiding a nation will be diminished, and there will never reach consensus between different social groups without a leader trying to guide them or pacify them.
For the final analysis, to be an effective leader, she should neither let all public opinions decide the national politics nor sticking to a principle without listening to its people. After all, if we want to define what does ‘effective’ mean for political leaders, as for me, the criteria of effective is to satisfy the general welfare as well as meet the diversified needs of different group, which requires both clear objectives and the voices of people. So let people voice their opinions, and the leader’s role is the gather them and find a common ground according to a principle or objective shared by the public.
- Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently 70
- Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.Write a response in which you 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 649, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...t political decisions, for example, how much taxes we should pay or how much medical...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, similarly, so, well, after all, as for, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3130.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 590.0 442.535393258 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30508474576 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92848004997 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99955181944 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515254237288 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 982.8 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 15.0 4.38483146067 342% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.625259728 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.384615385 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6923076923 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92307692308 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.309829420926 0.243740707755 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0905440594666 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075883146843 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219508146516 0.150359130593 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0291027166982 0.0667264976115 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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