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It’s Persuasion because he’s trying to tell us America or Americans need to do better because we’re slipping and other countries are getting ahead and he doesn’t want that, we need to do better as a country is telling us to come together and be better, persuasion
In response to the argument that the British have protected the colonies, Thomas Paine argues that while this is technically true, the British have only done so for their own economic gain, not out of a feeling of altruism.
If I'm not mistaken, it was Carla Mason (not sure tho)