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Originally Posted by Frownland
I guess I'm not totally sure of what your broader question is. If you want to go really broad, maybe "How well do our leaders reflect or represent the populace?"? That removes the false dilemma of R v D at least.
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I like the question in principle and I think that would lead to an interesting though quite tangential discussion - but I think that particular question is too broad and nebulous for our purposes. To have any kind of meaningfull discourse with this question, it would beg further questions like:
"Our" - who is the identifying party implied? America? The west? The world? I suppose identifying this would reasonably define "populace"
"leaders" - what leaders? Political leaders? Spiritual leaders? Intellectual leaders?
"reflect or represent" - reflect or represent how? the interests of the populace? the ethnic makeup of the public?
"How well" - how do we quantify this?
Does R v. D necessarily have to be a false dilemma?