"now i come to the second of the two marauders, to the second danger which threatens the cottage home and ordinary people--namely tyranny. we cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the united states and throughout the british empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are very powerful."

- winston churchill, "iron curtain" speech, westminster college, fulton, missouri, march 5, 1946

churchill's main point can best be stated as
a) u. s. and english cottages are not protected in other countries.
b) many countries do not give their citizens individual liberties.
c) ordinary people are not able to build cottage homes in many countries.
d) political and military tyrants threaten blind citizens throughout the u. s.

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.