Original sentence: In open societies, the government is expected to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal, or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions
Edited sentence: In open societies, the government is purported to be responsive and tolerant, and political mechanisms are said to be transparent and flexible.Popper saw the open society as standing on a historical continuum reaching from the organic, tribal or closed society, through the open society marked by a critical attitude to tradition, up to the abstract or depersonalised society lacking all face-to-face transactions