The American people seem to come up with slogans to express how they are feeling. During the Revolutionary war the phrase “Give me liberty or give me death” was the big one. During the Vietnam War, the phrase then was “bring ‘em home”. No matter the situation in America, the people will always come up with some catchy phrase or subtly offensive phrase, just to get their point across. In the world of today, it all comes down to money. How much you make all depends on not only the job, but the people you know within the job and how morale of a person you are. That is why the young people of today created the phrase “We are the 99 percent”. The phrase started small but quickly grew. It went from just a phrase to the slogan of a large campaign, …show more content…
Which surely started to happen. There is no doubt that with all this new popularity the slogan didn’t catch the attention of the “1 percent”. This is when they must have realized that it was becoming a huge deal to the community. The Democrats in Congress started to work on doing something about the “99 percent”. They actually started to be beneficial towards the “99 percent” when congress started to take action. Pushing many actions, such as a job. Although the democrats wanted to help the “99 percent” the Republican Party and called it “un-American”. The Republicans calling the campaign and its protesters “un-American” couldn’t have been any more “un-American”. The article does not touch on this as much as it should.
What the readers easily understand from Brian Stelter’s article “We Are the 99 Percent” Joins the Cultural and political Lexicon is the importance of the slogan “We are the 99 percent”. He easily explains the impact, feelings and diversity of the slogan. Although the slogan was tossed around in the media. And sometimes mocked by some of its users, it continued to have a strong impact. It was and still is a great slogan; one that will stay relevant throughout history such as “Give me liberty or give death” and “Bring ‘em