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Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory. Therefore, _____________.

Which one of the following is the most logical completion of the argument?

(A) no victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

(B) a victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power

(C) the heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

(D) a victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

(E) it is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power
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answer is B. "therefore" means "for the reason" or "consequently" or "conclusion", so the political party's members have to improve upon the earlier errors and for the reason, B fits perfectly.
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I believe the argument is not inspired by the election happening in India. Pun intended.
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How is the answer B..?What is the logic..?
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redskull1, I came to (B) by POE. (C) is the only other reasonable contender and it is not correct because how can we say that they will not come together? We have no way to justify this. For (B), there is plenty to support it. We are told that the parties banded together to come to power, but have issues. If they were to not band together, they would lose. Simple.
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Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory. Therefore, _____________.

Which one of the following is the most logical completion of the argument?

(A) no victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

(B) a victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power

(C) the heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

(D) a victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

(E) it is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power
­Premises:

Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. 

Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory.

Conclusion: _____________

The premises tell us that insurgent political parties which are dissatisfied with the dominant’s party reign always consists of factions with very different views. Though these factions come together to topple the dominant party, their differences come forward later. We are looking for a conclusion here. 

(A)    No victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

We don’t know how long each party stays in power. 


(B)    A victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power



Correct. We are given that the differences will rise again later. So these should be addressed to stay in power.

(C)    The heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

We don’t know whether  it will or will not promulgate a new ideology.


(D)    A victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

We are not given whether the previously dominant party opposes the insurgent party.

(E)    It is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power

We cannot say that the difference cannot be resolved. 

Answer (B)
 
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Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory. Therefore, _____________.

Which one of the following is the most logical completion of the argument?

(A) no victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

(B) a victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power

(C) the heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

(D) a victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

(E) it is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power
­Premises:

Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. 

Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory.

Conclusion: _____________

The premises tell us that insurgent political parties which are dissatisfied with the dominant’s party reign always consists of factions with very different views. Though these factions come together to topple the dominant party, their differences come forward later. We are looking for a conclusion here. 

(A)    No victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

We don’t know how long each party stays in power. 


(B)    A victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power



Correct. We are given that the differences will rise again later. So these should be addressed to stay in power.

(C)    The heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

We don’t know whether  it will or will not promulgate a new ideology.


(D)    A victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

We are not given whether the previously dominant party opposes the insurgent party.

(E)    It is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power

We cannot say that the difference cannot be resolved. 

Answer (B)



 
Could you please help me better understand answer choices (B) and (C)?

(B) We need to assume that parties must resolve their differences to stay in power, but there could be situations where they have differences yet remain in power.

(C) In some cases (because the passage doesn't provide more information), insurgent parties will promulgate a new ideology to justify their own policies.­
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Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory. Therefore, _____________.

Which one of the following is the most logical completion of the argument?

(A) no victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

(B) a victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power

(C) the heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

(D) a victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

(E) it is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power
­Premises:

Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. 

Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory.

Conclusion: _____________

The premises tell us that insurgent political parties which are dissatisfied with the dominant’s party reign always consists of factions with very different views. Though these factions come together to topple the dominant party, their differences come forward later. We are looking for a conclusion here. 

(A)    No victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did

We don’t know how long each party stays in power. 


(B)    A victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power



Correct. We are given that the differences will rise again later. So these should be addressed to stay in power.

(C)    The heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious

We don’t know whether  it will or will not promulgate a new ideology.


(D)    A victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted

We are not given whether the previously dominant party opposes the insurgent party.

(E)    It is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power

We cannot say that the difference cannot be resolved. 

Answer (B)




 
Could you please help me better understand answer choices (B) and (C)?

(B) We need to assume that parties must resolve their differences to stay in power, but there could be situations where they have differences yet remain in power.

(C) In some cases (because the passage doesn't provide more information), insurgent parties will promulgate a new ideology to justify their own policies.­
­Keep in mind that in 'Best completes...' questions, the conclusion will not always be deduced from the premises. We often have inductive arguments in which the author gives his opinion and facts to support his opinion. In this question we have to say which opinion was the author building towards. He says that factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, but their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory. So, next logical statement would be that the victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements (which are anyway going to come to the fore) between its factions if it is to stay in power

. We cannot derive it from the argument but the author was building towards it. It could be the opinion for which he wrote this argument. He wrote the argument to warn the insurgent parties to bury their differences.

But he doesn't seem to be building up to insurgent party will not always set forth a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious. There is no indication of setting forth a new ideology in any of his premises. 

 
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