Which sentence best completes this diagram? Southerners
want slavery to
spread in the
West.
People in the
North organize
to stop the
spread of
slavery
?
A. Most people
in the North
and the
South work
to
compromise
over slavery
B. People in the West argue for the right to vote on allowing slavery.
C. Southerners are more willing to compromise with northerners.
D. Northerners and southerners grow more politically divided.
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Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.