Rhetorical Analysis On Make America Great

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Make America Great! That was the slogan used by President Donald Trump. In retrospect, this very simple message, "Make America Great", resonated with a large portion of the population. Sadly as Nate Silver has pointed out, in his statistically analysis, voter who needed the most of a welfare state were the ones who voted for Donal Trump. In this case, white, rural, and non-college educated voted for Donald Trump. On the other hand, the majority of artist, scientist, and urban citizens voted for Hillary Clinton. If there is something to take away from this election, it would be the importance to define what greatness means. Should general welfare be the standard for greatness? Or, should accolades and achievments of artists, rulers, and scientist …show more content…

In other words, I would argue that greatness in this context focuses on the exterior or superficial idea of what greatness means. The idea of greatness through material success is very well connected with the prosperity teology. In which, believing in a Christ will bring material wealth. Moreover, a common misconception with this viewpoint is that the more wealth a person posses the more "blessed" by god he or she is. This sorts of ideas leads to a very common fallacy: The just world fallacy. In an experiment at Dartmouth University, two persons with very similiar physical charcteristics, background, and clothing were placed in an empty room. A computer randomly assigned who would receive an abundance of gifts. A third person who was seeing the experiment was then asked to qualify the two persons and describe them. The person who randomly received the gifts were praised with kinder and more positive words. While the person who did not receive the gif was given neutral characterization. What this experiment tells us is that we tend to attach good qualities to people, institutions, and event that present an exterior. Using this logical fallacy Trump's campaign was able to attach greatness with exterior validation. President Trump capitalized on rural voters conception of wealth and made them believe, he would provide that sign of greatness to

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