Read this sentence that appears in the first half of the article “5 held in a plot to bug democrats’ office here”: in court yesterday, one suspect said the men were "anti-communists" and the others nodded agreement. how does this sentence develop the main idea of this article? a. it reinforces the burglars’ connections to cuba, a communist country. b. it proves that the burglars were crazy. c. it supports the idea that the burglary was related to politics. d. it demonstrates that the burglars were all working together as a team.

The correct answer is C. It supports the idea that the burglary was related to politics.

Indeed, the article is about the crime of breaking and entering into the Democratic Party’s offices located in the Watergate Building, by five individuals hired by important members of the Nixon administration and the Republican Party. This context helps interpret their motives and prosecutors surely knew the crime was politically motivated. However, this particular piece of testimony from one of the defendants proves the political motivations of the crime. Nixon pretended initially that this was a common burglary, this statement proves him wrong.

Republican have always been staunch anti-communists/leftists and they have always accused Democrats of being “commie sympathizers”. This type of discourse proves the political affiliation of the burglars.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

it would be b. broad.

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