For my midterm project, I organized all presidential inaugural speeches by century, and compared prevalence of first-person singular, first-person plural and second-person pronouns. Find it here!
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Your project presents a great point about the increasing trend in using the first-person plural pronouns. It shows the psychology of we/them – the distinction between “us” and “others” – is a natural barrier between people of various socioeconomic statuses. Propaganda and lack of information can lead people to believe in the words of figureheads and become ignorant of the perpetrators of poverty, war, and destruction.