Since 1980s, American governments have held an unquestioned, fundamentalist-like belief in the ability of markets to solve all problems and have created a(n) (i)___ political culture that values dominance over cooperation. Dissenters found themselves (ii)____ as promoters of a "nanny stat" with citizen‘s individual choices being stripped by an overprotective government, or discredited as too (iii)___ to be national leaders.The political culture is described as valuing dominance over cooperation. Thus
imperial is the correct choice.The choice
conciliatory, which implies willing to listen and accommodate the other other is ruled out as it is the exact opposite of what we are looking for. There is no indication othat the political culture was rivaling with others for dominance, thus
rivaling is ruled out.
Since dissenters were described as promoters of a "nanny state" with implied derogation, a state where citizen‘s individual choices being stripped by an overprotective government, the choice has to be
vilified, The dissenters position is the exact opposite of those who believe in the ability of markets to solve all problems. Therefore, they could not be
exalted or
venerated.
If you are
puissant, it means you are powerful. And you can be a national leader. So that is ruled out. Nothing prevents an
austere person to function effectively as a national leader. But you can be discredit as too
soft to be a national leader.
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