Despite numerous successes for women in the 1970s , the feminist movement suffered a severe setback when a. the Supreme Court began to oppose the extension of women's rights
b. the Equal Rights Amendment failed to achieve ratification by the states
c. Congress refused to extend women's rights to an equal education to the are of athletics
d. moderate and radical feminists began to attack each other over whether gender differences should be totally eradicated
e. the declining economy created a growing gap between men and women's earning power

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.