Which of the following best completes the passage
below?
“Government” does not exist as an independent entity
defining policy. Instead there exists a group of demo-
cratically elected pragmatists sensitive to the electorate,
who establish policies that will result in their own
reelection. Therefore, if public policy is hostile to, say,
environmental concerns, it is not because of govern-
mental perversity but because elected officials believe
that—
(A) environmentalists would be extremely difficult to
satisfy with any policy, however environmentally
sound
(B) environmental concerns are being accommodated
as well as public funds permit
(C) the public is overly anxious about environmental
deterioration
(D) the majority of voters vote for certain politicians
because of those politicians’ idiosyncratic posi-
tions on policy issues
(E) the majority of voters do not strongly wish for a
different policy | 
