🧩 BND Motif Index · M1051
A plague on both your houses
Both parties are said to be the problem alike, locked in a doom loop where nothing gets done, so voters sick of both turn to a candidate who belongs to neither: a plague on both your houses. An independent Senate candidate who won't caucus with either party ('we're stuck in a two-party doom loop'); the 'double haters' of 2024.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Elections🗂️ Things fall apart
- 5claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Politics has become divorced from lived reality, leading people to reject partisan identities.”
🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-24 “Many voters are double haters who dislike both the Democratic and Republican parties.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-24 “Dan Osborn runs as an independent because he rejects having to take one party's whole package of values.”
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-22 “The two-party system is inherently divisive and creates a doom loop where nothing gets done.”
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-15 “Increasing polarization might be reversing because voters are dissatisfied with both major parties.”
🎙️ Breaking Points
M1051 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works