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 committed to particular principles and objectives.
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.
Some people assert that political leaders must comply with public opinion and abandon their own principles, and others believe that effective leader must remain their principles. In my opinion, although yielding to public opinion is the basic of democracy, public debate may cause chaos and irrational bills.
Obeying public opinion is crucial for a democracy. According to American political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: a political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; the active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; protection of the human rights of all citizens; a rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens. Moreover, he states that the best opinion can win after public debate like in the ancient Greek and the nation administration can be efficient.
However, public debate may cause low-efficiency. In the book Public Opinion by famous politician Lippmann, he claims that in the process of public debate, people who hold different opinions may have severe conflicts and cause hysteria in the whole society. Take the US as an example. With the increasing polarization of public opinion of the US, both citizens who hold conservative and liberal opinions can not persuade each other. Even the president of the US- Donald Trump – accused CNN, a news organization leaning left fake news more than 20 times in the year of 2018. Facing probability of creating accusations of “fake news”, public opinion has already lost its unique position as the guidance of political resolutions.
In addition, public may make irrational voice towards political issues. The public is not always rational. For example, in the cultural revolution in China happened in the 1960s, Chinese citizens lost their sanity. Humiliating even killing other people is common. More recently, Brexit is another good example. Most citizens in the UK even do not know what Brexit means for the future development of Britain, and the only thing they go after is expelling those refuges from the empire in which the sun never sets.
In a nutshell, public opinion which is the core of democracy, may cause chaos and irrational political decisions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, so, for example, in addition, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1927.0 2235.4752809 86% => OK
No of words: 363.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3085399449 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75974766064 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584022038567 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.6260291674 60.3974514979 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.055555556 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1666666667 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94444444444 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.280980208119 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0804918253585 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0824821512691 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156064235161 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108560011083 0.0667264976115 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.1392134831 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.5 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.