🧩 BND Motif Index · M385
Out of touch
Those in charge, whether politicians, executives, or a club's board, are said to live in a different world from ordinary people and not to understand their concerns.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 13claims filed under it
- 2center shows it came up on
- 6claims retold online
⚠️ 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 How do you do, fellow kids 🧩 Let them eat cake
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Class conflict 🧩 Fighting the last war 🧩 Game of Thrones
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 2
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Elon Musk donates over $150 million to Texas Senate race 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-18
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Laura Ingraham is correct that butter is about a buck a stick, but the person she called out was lying about the price or the product.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “James Carville is an irrelevant, self-serving, and out-of-touch figure who has lost his political utility.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “Trump's refusal to empathize with economic pain makes him vulnerable during economic challenges.”
🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-17 “Texas Republicans are corrupt leaders who serve themselves and specific sectors rather than the working class.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-16 “Donald Trump claims that high oil prices are making the country a fortune.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “Biden was a weak, out-of-touch, status-quo Democrat.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Washington D.C. politics is currently abnormal and lacks decency.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook - 2026-10-06 “The AI industry is often tone deaf to the actual concerns of the public.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook - 2026-10-05 “Celtic fans are being unfairly targeted by the club's leadership for their dissent, and the club's leadership is out of touch with the true spirit of the club.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-09-26 “Vivek Ramaswamy is a billionaire who is suspicious to working-class Republicans.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-29 “Voters believe older politicians don't understand AI and technology issues.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-22 “Democrats are condescending and lecture voters when they hold different opinions.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-22 “The Democratic strategy of focusing on Trump is outdated and ineffective.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M385 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works