Which persuasive technique do politicians use when they say “the people of america want . .”?

Reading journal for american literature just fill out the 10 questions 100 points

The author’s purpose for including this in the introduction is

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used