Thank you for that rational comment.
You are welcome. Open government really solves a lot of problems. When they become secretive, it causes a huge disconnect with the people.
You would think they would know better.
Our transparency is among the reasons why America has withstood the test of time against countries such as Russia and China. We are much more easy to spy on. It is much more easy to assassinate our president.
But in the end, we consistently rise to the top because that tansparency leads to truth and to quick corrections when things go wrong. It leads to bad leaders being purged and to bad decisions being overturned.
Nothing good can come from ruling a society in secret, but these lessons have to be learned every so often and our current leaders seem to have completely forgot this lesson. They keep thinking they can reinvent the wheel, and they can’t. So they try to rule in secrecy, but when they are finally found out, it just ruins everything they wree trying to achieve and the lack of trust insures they aren’t returned to power.
You would think they would learn.