Politics: Which is more desirable, pursuing ideals or pursuing a reasonable consensus?
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Some people contend that pursuing ideals is the favorable attitude for politicians whereas others argue that politics based upon a reasonable consensus is more desirable. Admittedly, both ideas are equally important and, in fact, history informs us that these two approaches are mutually exclusive. However, as far as politics in today’s America is concerned, I believe that [the deployment of politics within the domain of reasonable consensus is more crucial.
The chief reason for my assertion lies in the evolutionary nature of American politics. If we analyze [how politics in our country has evolved], we would have a certain level of agreement that today’s political system is much more efficient than the quasi-politics that formed at the very beginning of American history. In such a society where every conceivable thing was unstable and far away from ideals, pursuing ideals is the only viable political approach.
However, our society has evolved and come to the point where we have achieved what we can, and any deviations from the current political system may cause confusion rather than improvement. As a matter of fact, can we name anything that is deemed “ideal” yet contrary to a society’s consensus?. I cannot name even one as most of us cannot, and this is rather natural because, through the course of political and economical evolution, ideals held by citizens have already materialized or been achieved, and they have now become the consensus. Let us clarify this point by using several examples.
The first example is the establishment of independency. As is widely known, [the history of America cannot be fully explained without war. Aside from whether each war and the tactics deployed in the war were justifiable or not, it is certain that under such unstable circumstances, people wished ‘’it would be ideal if we could live in a society where we do not have to worry about winning independence and being invaded”. However, what were ideal circumstances decades ago have come to be the reality. We do not have to fight for independence, nor are we obliged to expand national territory. Unless the opinion given by the vast majority of population demands (i.e. a consensus), do we have to start a new war? The answer is “No.”
The second example is the fight against racism. Racism has always existed in America, and a certain proportion of people still have some prejudice against a specific race. A consensus tells us that racism is thought to be one of the most inhumane notions, and in fact, politicians have established laws than interdict racism or any kinds of race-based segregation.
In the final analysis, I would like to emphasize that examples above are not oversimplifications. These examples simply manifest the fact that primitive politics has grown to be modern politics. Simply put, [our form of society is stable as it is, fulfilling a large part of citizens’ consensus]. On the contrary, pursuing political ideals would mean that we must change or alter the current political approach, to which there is no guarantee that what awaits us is the anticipated improvement but not deterioration or confusion.
As far as politics in today’s America is concerned, I strongly insist that politics based upon a reasonable consensus is more desirable for the reasons discussed above. This is not to deny the claim that pursuing ideals is meaningless. In fact, if a consensus points toward the necessity for radical changes in politics, we must pursue the ideals. Yet, it must be noted that, in this case too, the pursuit of ideals is embraced when and only when it is in agreement with a consensus. In our current society where politicians represent all citizens, it is important that each politician learn the importance of a consensus. Bereft of the consideration for consensus, no concrete political achievement can be established.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, still, whereas, in fact, as a matter of fact, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 41.0 19.5258426966 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3312.0 2235.4752809 148% => OK
No of words: 636.0 442.535393258 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20754716981 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02185627292 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09281485673 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 316.0 215.323595506 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496855345912 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 1080.9 704.065955056 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5614633594 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.206896552 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9310344828 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55172413793 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146586078152 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0441257561432 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438536895657 0.0758088955206 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0799823467909 0.150359130593 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0484830876943 0.0667264976115 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 161.0 100.480337079 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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