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19. This would kind of make the argument for more transparency ... no?

I know there are some secrets that need to be kept (I.E. Troop movements and positions, new superweapons, etc...) but the reality is that if a government has too many secrets it chooses to keep from its citizens, then that government will tend to lose legitimacy.

I would imagine that the secrets guarded most closely are about the levels of corruption within the "representatives" in government and just how much they are actually benefiting from the positions of trust to which they were elected. I already have a healthy mistrust of government. I would prefer to know about those things they think would "scare" me.

That way, an idiot like Trump wouldn't really have anything to hold over anyone's head.