Well articulated article, I must say. Personally speaking, there's no gainsaying to the fact that we have extremists and political clowns as leaders now. They know nothing about philosophy. I still subscribe to Plato's assertion... "until philosophers become Kings and Queens, the World will never know peace ".

Secondly, there's this problem of abuse of power. I verily remember the dictum that goes this way; "Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely". I want to submit at this point that we have our roles to play to ensuring that we have a balanced and adorable society devoid of any political flux.