It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
What is the fundamental nature of the politics: some type of deceptive game or a straightforward game? Although many people argue that politics should be direct and naivete, but the fact is politics fundamentally demands some amount of disingenousness and deceptive quality. Therefore, I believe that for politicians it is necessary - and often desirable too, to withhold some secrets from the general populace.
Those who would argue that politics should be clean and every information of the state should be shared with the general public might say they have basic right to know what is happening in their country as they are the tax payers who sustains the basic functioning of their state. But this argument is rife with fallacies. Revealing some type of information by leaders would hinder the safety of the general public, say, if PM of any nation claims that some groups of terrorists are planning to kill people in some city, and if the national force makes the terrorist’s attempt abortive, what would be the result? People would be heavily fearful and even if terrorist’s plan is unsuccessful, they would feel psychological and social trauma. In this context, the PM would have been considered sagacious if he would have withheld the information and would have disclosed only after it was precluded by the national force.
Now, consider the another aspect of the argument: politician should withhold information when it is necessary. During Maoist conflict in Nepal, according to some experts, Nepalese Army was not that much superior to the Maoist revolutionary forces. However, national leaders withheld the information about the real status of Nepalese army, and helped to spread the rumor that Nepalese army, faith of all Nepalese people, was much more superior to those Maoist militias; all national medias and related agencies said so. This withholding real information and spreading rumor, at least, helped people to feel safe because government ordered medias not to broadcast news if any army dies and make a big news if Maoist forces are damaged.
Similarly, this year since January, for five months, there was a trade embargo in Indo-Nepal border. Some low land plain centered fringe political parties were disaffected on some provisions of newly promulgated constitution and hence they imposed trade embargo at the border. The government, however, accused India for imposing blocked, and the possible clash between the people of plain and hill was avoided. If the information, the blocked was obviously imposed by the people of plain, was not withheld to some extent, there would have been several communal clashes in Nepal this year and the safety of the people would have been badly compromised.
To recapitulate, after weighing the evidences presented above, it is clear that it is often necessary, and sometimes desirable too, for politicians to withhold some information. The examples of some political events of Nepal mentioned above strengthens my position in this argument.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'at least']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223247232472 0.240241500013 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.160516605166 0.157235817809 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.108856088561 0.0880659088768 124% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0424354243542 0.0497285424764 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0258302583026 0.0444667217837 58% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114391143911 0.12292977631 93% => OK
Participles: 0.0442804428044 0.0406280797675 109% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84054522307 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0221402214022 0.030933414821 72% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.112546125461 0.0997080785238 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0276752767528 0.0249443105267 111% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0110701107011 0.0148568991511 75% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3028.0 2732.02544248 111% => OK
No of words: 482.0 452.878318584 106% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28215767635 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.392116182573 0.366273622748 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.296680497925 0.280924506359 106% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.224066390041 0.200843997647 112% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.134854771784 0.132149295362 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84054522307 2.79330140395 102% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 219.290929204 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51244813278 0.48968727796 105% => OK
Word variations: 60.1248015252 55.4138127331 109% => OK
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6194690265 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.7777777778 23.380412469 115% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.8364045169 59.4972553346 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 168.222222222 141.124799967 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7777777778 23.380412469 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.674092028746 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 56.4458275703 51.4728631049 110% => OK
Elegance: 1.66935483871 1.64882698954 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329144082983 0.391690518653 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.134023566357 0.123202303941 109% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0941192069839 0.077325440228 122% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.56328424782 0.547984918172 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.171500963223 0.149214159877 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134905424178 0.161403998019 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115593608286 0.0892212321368 130% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.327816264775 0.385218514788 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0421887910776 0.0692045440612 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228597733172 0.275328986314 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0781270424838 0.0653680567796 120% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.4325221239 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 7.22455752212 28% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 13.5995575221 66% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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