Comparing Adeimantus 'Rulers Of Socrates' Ideal City

Socrates though that philosophers would make the most ideal ruler in the ideal city. However, Adeimantus thought the opposite of Socrates saying that philosophers would make the worst rulers of the ideal city. Adeimantus thought that philosophers who were ignorant in the ways of philosophy, such as individuals pretending to be philosophers, would lead the ideal city into destruction. Also, he thought that the best philosophers, like Socrates, would only be caught up in philosophy and not the politics that the ruler would need to focus on to be a good leader. I think that philosophers could be good rulers for the ideal city because of their rationale abilities as long as they can focus on both philosophy and politics. Socrates believes
He thought that mediocre philosophers would become cranks and if they were to rule, then they wouldn't have good advice for the people they are leading. "Yet, when it comes to facts rather than words, he sees that of all those who take up philosophy—not those who merely dabble in it while still young in order to complete their upbringing, and then drop it, but those who continue in it for a longer time—the majority become cranks, not to say completely bad, while the ones who seem best are rendered useless to the city because of the pursuit you recommend" (p.180, 487c5-d5). Adeimantus meant that most philosophers would become cranks and not be able to effectively rule the ideal city, while great philosophers, such as Socrates, would waste their gift of wisdom if they ruled the ideal city because they wouldn't have the ability to only focus on teaching their philosophy due to the fact that they would have to focus on politics as well. "Furthermore, try to persuade him that you are speaking the truth when you say that the best among the philosophers are useless to the masses. But tell him to blame their uselessness on those who do not make use of them, not on those good philosophers" (p.182, 489a-b5). This quote meant that if the best philosophers were to rule, then they would be useless to the public as philosophers because
However, the individuals left inside the cave would be the ones who couldn't see what the real world had to offer because they are stuck in their own dark reality. This relates to the ship analogy because the individuals inside the cave are like the sailors and the individual outside the cave is like the captain who knows good from bad. The individual outside the cave would know the real reality from the blind reality. Socrates thought that philosophers should rule because they have the ability to reason and could see the real reality of the world. Therefore, they would be the best to rule the ideal city because they could lead the blind reality thinkers to the reality of the real