3. How does the discussion of Europeans’ first meeting with the Calusa Indians contribute to the development of ideas in the text?
A. It highlights how welcoming American Indians were of the Europeans.
B. It highlights the conJict between the Europeans and American Indians.
C. It highlights the Europeans and American Indians’ desire to form an alliance.
D. It highlights how Europeans and American Indians needed each other to survive.

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.