ome 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.
I don't necessarily agree with either statement in the prompt. While yes, a goal of politics should be used to pursue an ideal, and yes, a goal should be finding common ground and reaching reasonable consensus neither of these should be the only goal of politics. Both statements should be one of many goals of politics.
Yes, politics is built ideals. The country does not elect a person or policies, it elects the ideals that the candidate represents. Take for example Barak Obama. What made him a consequential president was not his health policies, or his cool demeanor. Barak Obama was elected as a statement of what type of direction America wanted to move in. In eight year before his election, the country became more ethnically and religiously diverse, move inclusive, and more open. Obama represented hope, unity, and inclusiveness of all backgrounds, and many in the country wanted to bring these ideals to the highest seat of power. This holds true in lower positions of power as well. Many voters in the sound vote solidly Republican in state and local races, which in turn, embrace the ideals of God, guns, and lower taxes. While different candidates may differ on how these ideals are pursued, at the base of their thinking, these ideals are what guide them.
With this stated, a goal should also be finding common ground and reaching reasonable consensus. America, for example, is a country of 350 million people, 50 states, and limitless of differences between its people, no one expects their represenitives to agree with everyone else on Capitol Hill, and it was built this way by the Founding Fathers. 13 colonies, divided between slave and free, big and small, all needed to agree on what type of country they wanted to mold into. It was only after several years and a failed confederate style of government did they begin drafting a new constitution. No state or delegate to the constitutional convention got exactly what they wanted, and everyone had to forfeit polices they wanted. The northern states could not end slavery, but did end the overseas slave trade. The Southern states could not guarantee slavery in the new territories, but did secure the capitol in the south. In the end, good enough was passed instead of perfect, but the country was able thrive because of it.
Yet there are other aspects of politics that are also important, such as keeping the promises made to constituents. If a candidate is elected on promising a pony to every member of the community, and fails to deliver, the candidate can expect to be out of a job in the mid-terms. Dennis Kunischinsh, the former Mayor of Cleveland ran on the promise of "You ask for it, you got it" only to realize that once in power he couldn’t give anything to anyone as the city was on the brink of bankruptcy. He lost in the next election. Obama on the other hand could not close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and end the war in Afghanistan, while promising both. He did however pass healthcare reform and bail out the auto industry (as promised.) While he did not keep every promise of the election trail, he kept enough to keep people satisfied to stay in power for eight years.
In short, the goal of politics is many things.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 3, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
I dont necessarily agree with either statement...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, well, while, for example, in short, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2697.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 559.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82468694097 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86242540663 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69324715124 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520572450805 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 846.0 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 14.0 1.77640449438 788% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.762116626 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.0 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.275862069 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.27586206897 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.2595286733 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0638092473928 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144905508135 0.0758088955206 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178989812442 0.150359130593 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.188800189692 0.0667264976115 283% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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