Carefully read the following statement:

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it_____ for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that _____ are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the ________ is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has to ________ rewrite its own history.

Which of the following options will BEST fill up the above blanks meaningfully?

Select an option to reveal the answer and explanation