Diction when combined with repetition can be a powerful thing. The use of repetition can be found in this nationalistic statement that is meant to instill the feeling of unity and a sense of comradery in the reader towards these grievance-groups/factions. “And this way to uplift satisfied the grievance-group “experts” because it laid the ground for their sovereignty and permanency: You negotiated with us. You funded us. You shared power, at least a bit of it, with us” (Steele 457). Steele does this to persuade the reader to believe that how these grievance-groups were slowly transformed into these self-entitled grievance-groups. This quote will demonstrate how the members of these groups were just as isolated by using this “you-to-us” sentence