"A politician's lifestyle should reflect his or her political views."
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which a politician's lifestyle might not reflect his political views. Discuss what you think determines whether or not a politician's lifestyle should reflect his or her political views.
This is what I wrote:
The above passage states that a leader's lifestyle should reflect his or her political views, and the leader should not be a hypocrite. Without a doubt, leadership is done by example and not so much by rhetoric, and the author seems to believe this. However, there are times when a politician's lifestyle diverges with their politics.
Often is the case, we see that a politician's lifestyle may diverge with their political views in order to appeal to the voting constituency. A politician's apparent lifestyle under the watchful eye of media may fashion his/her life to be very relatable to the public in order to garner support for bills or to make it easier for the public to agree with the politician. The politician may engage in well-choreographed media shoots in an outdoors setting to appeal to an agrarian voting bloc, but their politics can involve loosened environmental standards or reduced subsidies to farmers.
Yet there is also another case where the politician's lifestyle does not converge with that of his political views, and that is when a compromise is achieved with a rival party. The politician has made a mental calculation and determined that the greatest good for the greatest number of people which is in line with his or her political ideas must come at a small cost to his intellectual integrity. This politician has ranked the issues at hand and has determined that the biggest component of this bill is not compromised of its principal at the expense of lesser provisions of the bill.
Clearly, politician's integrity and rigidity of his/her beliefs is what determines whether or not their lifestyle reflects their political views. A politician with integrity, wisdom, authenticity of character, and confidence in themselves will not have to hone their image or craft sound bytes for the media to garner votes. By doing so would come across as being inauthentic, and the politician would seem a little less charismatic than a politician who does not have to consciously be someone that they are not. Moreover, a politician rigidness of beliefs makes it very difficult for the politician to be morally flexible in sacrificing some of their principles for a greater good. This uncompromising politician, in their zeal for intellectual purity, is not able to invest a little of their intellectual integrity for the greater good of achieving their broader political views.
Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which a politician's lifestyle might not reflect his political views. Discuss what you think determines whether or not a politician's lifestyle should reflect his or her political views.
This is what I wrote:
The above passage states that a leader's lifestyle should reflect his or her political views, and the leader should not be a hypocrite. Without a doubt, leadership is done by example and not so much by rhetoric, and the author seems to believe this. However, there are times when a politician's lifestyle diverges with their politics.
Often is the case, we see that a politician's lifestyle may diverge with their political views in order to appeal to the voting constituency. A politician's apparent lifestyle under the watchful eye of media may fashion his/her life to be very relatable to the public in order to garner support for bills or to make it easier for the public to agree with the politician. The politician may engage in well-choreographed media shoots in an outdoors setting to appeal to an agrarian voting bloc, but their politics can involve loosened environmental standards or reduced subsidies to farmers.
Yet there is also another case where the politician's lifestyle does not converge with that of his political views, and that is when a compromise is achieved with a rival party. The politician has made a mental calculation and determined that the greatest good for the greatest number of people which is in line with his or her political ideas must come at a small cost to his intellectual integrity. This politician has ranked the issues at hand and has determined that the biggest component of this bill is not compromised of its principal at the expense of lesser provisions of the bill.
Clearly, politician's integrity and rigidity of his/her beliefs is what determines whether or not their lifestyle reflects their political views. A politician with integrity, wisdom, authenticity of character, and confidence in themselves will not have to hone their image or craft sound bytes for the media to garner votes. By doing so would come across as being inauthentic, and the politician would seem a little less charismatic than a politician who does not have to consciously be someone that they are not. Moreover, a politician rigidness of beliefs makes it very difficult for the politician to be morally flexible in sacrificing some of their principles for a greater good. This uncompromising politician, in their zeal for intellectual purity, is not able to invest a little of their intellectual integrity for the greater good of achieving their broader political views.
