Response to Corruption of the electorate: I think that Plato/Socrates use the city of words as a tool to show the problems tat can arise within government. I think they show they show some interesting patterns of human behavior by reducing the state to a wise ruler. This gets rid of the majority, which often clouds the workings of the state.

Response to Knowledge and Truth: I think the way that Socrates is saying that you need different lenses to see the truth in different areas. If we are thinking about truth as the form of something then different "things have different truths. The one problem I have with this is that it makes the nature of existing relativistic because no one can know all of the conditions that everyone has ever lived in.