Answer: The mobilization of lower, made by upper-class politicians, for their own purposes. The mobilization of them involved gave recognition.
It was not purely deception; it involved, in part, a genuine recognition of lower-class grievances, which helps to account for its effectiveness as a tactic over the centuries.
The consciousness of the lower middle classes grew so much that was hard thinking, not just among the conservative Loyalists sympathetic to England, but even among leaders of the Revolution.