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Pundit: Support People complain about how ineffectual their legislative representatives are, but this apparent ineffectuality is simply the manifestation of compromises these representatives must make when they do what they were elected to do: compete for the government's scarce funds. ███ ████ ██████ ███████ ███████████████ ████ █████ ███████████ ████████████████ ██ ███ ██ ███████ ████ █████ ███████████████ ███ ██████ █████ ████ ████ ████ ███████ ██ ███
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that an electorate’s dissatisfaction with their elected officials proves that the elected officials are doing their job, which is to make compromises in pursuit of government funds. The author supports this conclusion by saying that when people are frustrated with an elected official’s ineffectuality, the official is making compromises and trying to obtain funding, as the ineffectuality is a result of those compromises.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author’s premises concern the electorate’s dissatisfaction with elected officials regarding apparent ineffectiveness. However, the conclusion concerns all dissatisfaction with an elected official. Since the premises only explain one type of dissatisfaction and its link to whether the official is doing their job, they do not support the broader conclusion about all types of dissatisfaction.
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The pundit's argument is flawed ███████ ██ █████ ███ ███████ ████
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the apparent ineffectuality ██ ███████████ ███████████████ ██ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███████████████ ████ █████ ███████████████
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governmental resources that ███ █████████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ████ ████████ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███████████
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constituents would continue ██ ██ ████████████ ████ ███ ████████████ ██ █████ ███████████ ███████████████ ██ ████████████ ████ █████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ████ ████████ ██████████████
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legislative compromise inevitably ███████ ██ ███████ ███████████████ ████ ███████████
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only elected public ████████ ████ ██ ██████ ███████████████ █████ ███ ██████