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.
The importance of the decision taken by political leader is not a trivial one. In fact, these decisions shape the country, pave the country’s way towards prosperity and safeguard people’s right. Here, the topic which has been selected here propose a contrast between the basis of decision making of political leaders. Some people argue that for being effective, political leader must yield to the public opinion and abandon the principles. Again, others believe that there shouldn’t be any compromise. A political leader must be strict to the principle. To be frank, this idea is not that binary as it proposes. It is much more complex issue than that. So, aligning with a particular idea strongly is not a good option. In my opinion, I mostly agree with the later argument of supporting principle and ignoring public opinion. However, I can’t fully take sides, as there are both positive and negative impact of both the arguments. There are three reasons which I would like to point out for my opinion.
To begin, the world is going through a pandemic crisis. Most developed countries have taken sufficient measure like vaccination and lockdown to lower the risks. But story is quite different for under-developed and developing countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar etc. It is the duty of the political leader to conform to the principles of safety rule and impose lockdown. However, the people of these country are mostly daily laborers, they earn their livelihood on daily basis. For instance, a day laborer during lockdown imposed by government will starve to death if he stays in the home. We often say law-enforcement agency arresting them on TV. But, in their case what will they do? They keep on saying it is hard for them to abide by government protocol. So, political leader can’t just keep on strictly adhere to the law or principles. They must take public opinion seriously as there is considerable number of daily basis workers. Someone must speak for them.
But all the cases are not same. Some times supporting public sentiment is a dangerous thing. It’s a common thing in India to find ‘Guru’-master of spiritual teaching and these gurus have millions of followers who follow them blindly. But in reality, most of the time they are fake and if searched properly, there is most likely be criminal background of them. For instance, there used to be a Guru named Ramdev in Kolkata, India with thousands of followers. But in covert operation to stop women trafficking his name came up. There was enough evidence that he was directly involve into these. So, naturally the thousands of publics didn’t want to believe their favorite spiritual master can be involved into this and claimed the allegations to be conspiracy. Now, if the political leader stays with the public, he will be sparing a criminal mastermind. But obviously this very political leader will be assuring massive votes for the upcoming election. This above example illustrates that how the spiritual leaders use public sentiment for masking their criminal activity. Political leader can’t make decisions in favor of these culprits just based on public opinion. The decision must be conforming to the law and principle.
To add to this, religion is kind of a big deal in Indian Sub-continent. People sometimes do horrible things in the name of religion. They forget to differentiate between right and wrong. For instance, recently based on a silly a social media post, thousands of people together attacked minority community in a village named Mongla in Bagerhat district of Bangladesh. They massacred the small minority community. This example provides sufficient light on the fact that just a certain idea has majority of public support doesn’t imply that the idea is wrong. It is the duty of political leader to go against the public opinion and be on the side of principle and take decisions accordingly.
Therefore, it is pretty clear that there is no strict answer for the issue rather it’s a twisted one. It is much more a situation-based process. Political leaders sometimes have to consider the public opinion and compromise principles in special case scenario. But I will put principles and objective mostly in front of public opinion for decision making purpose of political leaders.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...iple and take decisions accordingly. Therefore, it is pretty clear that there...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, so, therefore, for instance, in fact, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.5258426966 189% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 33.0505617978 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3611.0 2235.4752809 162% => OK
No of words: 709.0 442.535393258 160% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09308885755 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.16014088096 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76405253079 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 348.0 215.323595506 162% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490832157969 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1142.1 704.065955056 162% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 6.24550561798 304% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 48.0 20.2370786517 237% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.562518307 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.2291666667 118.986275619 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7708333333 23.4991977007 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.89583333333 5.21951772744 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 5.13820224719 331% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 19.0 4.83258426966 393% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319114746335 0.243740707755 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695075209099 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0800325006156 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190920409718 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0663450591834 0.0667264976115 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.1392134831 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.8420337079 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.1743820225 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.65 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ld like to point out for my opinion. To begin, the world is going through a p...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...orkers. Someone must speak for them. But all the cases are not same. Some tim...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...conforming to the law and principle. To add to this, religion is kind of a bi...
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Line 7, column 34, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'a' after a classification term. Use simply 'kind of'.
Suggestion: kind of
...le. To add to this, religion is kind of a big deal in Indian Sub-continent. Peopl...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...iple and take decisions accordingly. Therefore, it is pretty clear that there...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, however, if, so, therefore, for instance, in fact, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.5258426966 189% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 33.0505617978 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3611.0 2235.4752809 162% => OK
No of words: 709.0 442.535393258 160% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09308885755 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.16014088096 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76405253079 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 348.0 215.323595506 162% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490832157969 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1142.1 704.065955056 162% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 6.24550561798 304% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 48.0 20.2370786517 237% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.562518307 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.2291666667 118.986275619 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7708333333 23.4991977007 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.89583333333 5.21951772744 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 17.0 5.13820224719 331% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 19.0 4.83258426966 393% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.319114746335 0.243740707755 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695075209099 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0800325006156 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190920409718 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0663450591834 0.0667264976115 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 14.1392134831 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.8420337079 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.1743820225 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.65 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.