Glasnost was a movement towards the end of the Soviet Union in which citizens and journalists demanded transparency and the right to report transparently on the state. It is crucial that we embody this ethos in our democratic society in which with great freedom comes great responsibility to our rights. We must check and balance upholders of the system's survival with our voices for our own needs. We need information, data, facts, and leaders who are more loyal to the individuals within the system than the system itself. Drunkdial your senator, not your ex.