The Real World: AU and Beyond: Is it always better to take the initiative in poli...: "In my personal opinion, to take chances is always good advice. However, to just go out and make a daring political decision is simple ignor..."
Overall I agree with your argument that making a bold political statement just for the sake of being bold is useless. However, I wanted to point out that this is not the activity that Machiavelli advocated. In fact, The Prince in some ways would support the argument you just made.
Machiavelli makes specific claims on how to act in certain situations, but on a whole he argues that it all depends on the situation. On the issue of fortresses, he stresses that “a ruler who is more afraid of his subjects than of foreign powers should build fortresses; but a ruler who is more afraid of foreign powers than of his subjects should do without them” (66-67). This epitomizes his idea that regardless of what advice Machiavelli provides, it all boils down to the given situation. This directly correlates with your idea that “a well thought out course of action might bring about great results.”
Furthermore, I wanted to iterate that we still don’t have a public option, even with Obama in office.
Regardless, we are in conjunction in what an efficient politician should do. Daring for the simple sake of being daring is utterly pointless.
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