🧩 BND Motif Index · M835
Great Recession
The 2008 crash and the bailouts that followed are taken as the origin of today's anger: the working class bailed out the banks, and everything since grew from it.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Pocketbook🗂️ Time motifs
- 1claim filed under it
- 1center 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 The forgotten man
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Corporate welfare
🎙️ 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 1
🐘 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.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-05 “The rise of Donald Trump was driven by a loss of agency, economic inequality, and demographic shifts.”
🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR)
M835 · first seen 2026-10-10 · what this is · how the index works