Politicians are prone to tell lies to the public because they want to burnish their image and thus gain more support. For example, they may withhold their disgraceful past from the people. Some may think that certain politicians' edges shouldn't be affected by the exposure of their shameful past, but even if the politicians have changed for the better, the public still deserve to know their past for a more holistic view of the politicians. After all, the public are not a group of uneducated children who have no ability of judgement; they ought to know the bigger picture as much as possible to make the right choices on their own.
The politicians and the public should collaborate to regulate the polities, and thus they should possess the same amount of available information. As the Greek author Sophocles famously wrote in his play "Antigone": a state without the people but one man is not a state. When it comes to important decisions, such as setting standards for regulating environmental pollution, peacekeeping, adjusting economic policies, etc., the public will need to vote to ensure that the outcome is preferable for most of the people in the state. The politicians, although elected by the people and possibly possess extraordinary knowledge in politics, do not necessarily make the best decisions alone due to their privileged perspectives. Yet, to include the public's wisdom in the decision-making process requires the public to be more knowledgeable about what is currently happening in the world as clearly as possible. Therefore, it can never be more desirable to allow politicians to cover up against the public.
In the same line of thinking, keeping information from the public grants politicians an intolerable concentration of power. Xi Jinping, by determining that no information against China's Communist Party (CCP) can be shown to the public, forbids Chinese citizens from approaching the facts on how CCP abuses its citizens. Under such a brainwashing act, Xi can keep his regime in place. Then, he can wield his power however he wants as his citizens are just ignorant lamb, absorbing information only after Xi's filter, which precludes any news that does harm to his throne. Similarly, if politicians can conceal their suspicious acts during elections, then they hold a higher power over citizens to ensure their winning, while citizens have no choice but to be misled by politicians. In extreme cases, this can cause an authoritarian regime, which leads to haphazard political decisions and gradually deteriorates the order of the state.
Admittedly, covering up dangerous information when a crisis happens can, to some degree, placate the citizens' emotions and ensure the peace and order of the society. However, governments should not think of citizens as so easily fluttered that they cannot take the burden of any crisis. One goes through life with accidents taking place almost every day, and an adult citizen will not be completely vulnerable facing a piece of shocking news. Instead, politicians should share the unfortunate news with the public and discuss solutions together. As long as the news source is validated by the government (in fact, every source should be clear before they are delivered to anyone), citizens have the right to the news for the better good of social progress.
In a word, in a state where equality exists between citizens and the government, politicians should not hide information from the public under any circumstances. Withholding information is an arbitrary assessment of civic ability and suppresses citizen rights. It also imparts politicians with too much power, potentially leading to a totalitarian society and endless forms of oppression.
- The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times 58
- Over the past year the Crust Copper Company CCC has purchased over 10 000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered 66
- The following memorandum is from the manager of Bagel Mania Bakery Recently Bagel Mania replaced sugar with saccharin a sugar substitute throughout its bakeries in the Northeast areas of the USA Contrary to initial expectations this change did not have an 66
- The speaker states that it is sometimes necessary and desirable for political leaders to withhold information from the public 83
- Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of views 75
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 199, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'thinks'.
Suggestion: thinks
...graceful past from the people. Some may think that certain politicians edges shouldnt...
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Line 1, column 236, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...ay think that certain politicians edges shouldnt be affected by the exposure of their sh...
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Line 2, column 754, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'publics'' or 'public's'?
Suggestion: publics'; public's
...leged perspectives. Yet, to include the publics wisdom in the decision-making process r...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, similarly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, after all, for example, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3132.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 598.0 442.535393258 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23745819398 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94510247834 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9748031171 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 322.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 988.2 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9647890432 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.5 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9166666667 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.04166666667 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194581016424 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586482006036 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507944905915 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111638874432 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0395551851074 0.0667264976115 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 100.480337079 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.