Thomas Paine Vs. George W. Bush

Thomas Paine is attempting to rally support for the American colonies to defend themselves from the British. He uses several techniques to try and persuade everyone that this will not be an easy task and that everyone will be needed to make it successful.

One of the main techniques Thomas Paine uses is Patriotism. He insinuates that Freedom is highly rated and is worth fighting for. He notes that the British government can tax the people of the American colonies, and have total governmental control over them. Paine compares this governmental control over them to slavery.

Thomas Paine also includes religion as a way to move the people to his cause. He compares the King of Britain to a murderer or thief. Paine can not see how God can support Britain’s effort. He also implies that God will not give them up to the work of the devil.

Politicians in America, in order to gain the support of the voters, attempt to show that their ideas and values are similar. The politician uses phrases and terms that play a role on the voters emotions. He wants to persuade the voters that both of them see that the views on the issues are the same.

George W. Bush, recently elected President of the United States, used some of the same persuasion techniques that Thomas Paine used in “The Crisis”. He used Patriotism to garner the voter’s support against terrorism. He implied that this country was based on freedom and that terrorism would destroy the freedoms everyone in the United States enjoyed.

In “The Crisis,” Thomas Paine implies that all the people will be affected by losing a war with the British, regardless of their social class or inhabitancy. President Bush also used similar persuasion techniques in the fight against terrorism and tax cuts. He indicated that terrorism affected everyone in the United States and that the tax cuts would benefit everyone as well.

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