Some people claim that the goal of politics should be the pursuit of an ideal. Others argue that the goal should be finding common ground and reaching reasonable consensus.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Taking a cursory glance at the some of the most successful political systems today, the common man will often find himself confounded by the complex mechanization of these organizations. But on further inspections he would find himself faced with of the two facts; the entity in question is either willing to function in ways that may require it to accept some form of compromise, or it marches towards an abstract ideal often foisted upon the common man by the few in power. Though the latter may sometimes seem to be a noble endeavor, it is rarely an agreeable one. Looking at the annals of history it can be established that, for the betterment of the many, the goal of politics should be finding common grounds and reaching reasonable consensus.
Democracy, which is hailed one of the most successful political systems functions on this principle. The founding fathers of democracy in Athens intended it to be a platform where through debates and discussion a reasonable consensus could be achieved between both the extremes of the matter at hand. This allows the political system to cater towards the needs of the masses by, ensuring it is ground in the concerns of the common man and not heavily influenced by the powerful few.
This is further made evident when we closely examine the rules and laws that are passed in present day and age. There are a very few notable cases where policies fueled by the pursuit of abstract ideals have been able to survive the stringent vetting that would allow them to become laws. Looking at the most notable examples were the travel bans drafted by the current governing body in their early days with an extremely xenophobic attitude. It took less than a month to be revoked by the opposition. This demonstrates the fact the such extreme policies rarely see the light of day.
On the contrary, we can also the alternative offered to us by the philosopher Plato in the Republic. He sets forth a beautiful utopia fueled by the idea that the ruling few should rule with wisdom and humility acquired over the course of their lives. He asserts that the democratic set-up allowed for anyone to run for office and more than often, the person may not be qualified for the position. Despite this seeming to be an elusive ideal it seems to be a wonderful proposition yet, there are shortcoming which Plato refused to address. Such, and idealistic pursuit will stifle any breakthrough which otherwise emerge for passionate endeavors and would eventually collapse under its own weight.
Thus, to conclude we can say that any political system should be with a goal to finding common ground and to reach a reasonable censure, which will allow for the betterment of the masses. Though the allure of an elusive ideal may seem to be tempting it will more than often implode, this is can be seen look at autocratic rules like those of Hitler, Saddam Hussein and others who set forth along this path.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 32, Rule ID: THE_SOME_DAY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'same'?
Suggestion: same
Taking a cursory glance at the some of the most successful political system...
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Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'shortcomings'?
Suggestion: shortcomings
... a wonderful proposition yet, there are shortcoming which Plato refused to address. Such, a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, then, thus, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2435.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 505.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82178217822 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56438013675 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526732673267 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5984867691 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.157894737 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5789473684 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.320225325524 0.243740707755 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0917864790435 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0879831776271 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182028944815 0.150359130593 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0792140808137 0.0667264976115 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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