HSRP-414

1. Header

Number

HSRP-414

Category

Natural Law

Grade

PROBABLE

Status

ACTIVE

Entry form

Full

First entered

Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 025

Last revised

2026-10-13

Register entry

https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-414

2. The claim, in full

THE TWO HIVE MINDS: party loyalty in the United States works as a social identity, and voters largely follow it. Rests on: the publisher's description of Achen and Bartels, Democracy for Realists (2016) (voters choose "on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues"; the book itself not opened); Finkel and fourteen co-authors, Science 370 (2020) (political sectarianism defined at p. 533; "cold feelings toward the out-party now exceed warm feelings toward the in-party", p. 533; a majority-party candidate "could get elected despite openly violating democratic principles", p. 535, reporting Graham and Svolik 2020, not opened); Rathje, Van Bavel and van der Linden, PNAS 2021 (each out-group term raised the odds of a post being shared by 67%, from the abstract, which gives n = 2,730,215; observational; sharing, not votes). Washington's Farewell Address (1796) is quoted as a text, the two fragments being the opening and closing words of one sentence. Against, carried on the page: Druckman, Green and Iyengar (2023) found "scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S." That the two party hive minds are steered by design is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found; what is found is an incentive that rewards hostility. The model of the hive mind is this site's own, set out on /the-hive-mind, whose section 9 is "THE TWO-PARTY ARCHITECTURE", and on /psycho-vulgarism.

Cited on: /two-party-hive-mind, section "Two hive minds".

3. What it rests on

Not yet recorded for this observation.

4. Sources

• SRC-707 · PRIORITY · Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government — Achen, Christopher H., and Larry M. Bartels (Princeton University Press) (2016)
  Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded
  PINPOINTS from /two-party-hive-mind: voters "mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues"; and "voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties". BOTH VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03. WHICH PAGE CARRIES THE WORDS: the PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION, not the book, which was not opened. The description's own framing is "They demonstrate that voters - even those who are well informed and politically engaged - mostly choose...", so the page's attribution, "Their publisher sums up the finding", is accurate. AUTHORS' MIDDLE INITIALS CONFIRMED on that page 2026-10-03: "Christopher H. Achen" and "Larry M. Bartels". NOT cited anywhere else on this site: /the-hive-mind was checked on 2026-10-03 and mentions neither author.
• SRC-708 · PRIORITY · Political sectarianism in America — Finkel, Eli J., Christopher A. Bail, Mina Cikara, Peter H. Ditto, Shanto Iyengar, Samara Klar, Lilliana Mason, Mary C. McGrath, Brendan Nyhan, David G. Rand, Linda J. Skitka, Joshua A. Tucker, Jay J. Van Bavel, Cynthia S. Wang & James N. Druckman, Science 370(6516):533-536 (2020)
  Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded
  DOI 10.1126/science.abe1715, established 2026-10-03 from Crossref, which also confirms fifteen authors and the pages 533-536. PINPOINTS from /two-party-hive-mind, ALL THREE VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03: p. 533, the definition - the article sets it as an APPOSITIVE, not a standalone sentence: "We propose here a superordinate construct, political sectarianism - the tendency to adopt a moralized identification with one political group and against another."; p. 533, "cold feelings toward the out-party now exceed warm feelings toward the in-party"; p. 535, "a majority-party candidate in most U.S. House districts - Democrat or Republican - could get elected despite openly violating democratic principles like electoral fairness, checks and balances, or civil liberties". THE PAGE OF THE DEFINITION IS 533, established 2026-10-03; the block recorded it as not known. THE TWO LONG DASHES IN THE THIRD QUOTATION ARE EM DASHES IN THE SOURCE: pdftotext flattens them to hyphens, which is an extraction artefact. The third quotation reports a finding of Graham and Svolik, American Political Science Review 114 (2020): 392, which was not opened.
• SRC-709 · PRIORITY · Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media — Rathje, Steve, Jay J. Van Bavel & Sander van der Linden, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(26):e2024292118 (2021)
  Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.2024292118. PINPOINT from /two-party-hive-mind: "Each individual term referring to the political out-group increased the odds of a social media post being shared by 67%." VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 at the University of Cambridge repository, after pnas.org returned HTTP 403 and the Crossref record carried only the shorter Significance statement. WHICH PAGE CARRIES THE WORDS, as the block asked: THE ABSTRACT, which also gives the post count - "Analyzing posts from news media accounts and US congressional members (n = 2,730,215)" - confirming both the figure and that the posts are from news-media and congressional accounts. OBSERVATIONAL, AND IT MEASURES SHARING, NOT VOTES; the page says so on its face.
• SRC-710 · PRIORITY · Farewell Address — Washington, George (1796)
  Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded
  PINPOINTS from /two-party-hive-mind: "The alternate domination of one faction over another" and "is itself a frightful despotism". BOTH VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 at Teaching American History, which credits its text to The American Presidency Project. THEY ARE THE OPENING AND CLOSING WORDS OF ONE SENTENCE and the middle is deliberately omitted, because the hosts differ on the spelling of a word within it ("dissention" / "dissension"). The next sentence in the Address, confirmed on the same host, is "But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism", which is what the page's lead-in "Washington saw where it leads" refers to. Dated 17 September 1796; first printed 19 September 1796.
• SRC-711 · PRIORITY · Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America? — Druckman, James N., Donald P. Green & Shanto Iyengar, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 708(1):137-163 (2023)
  Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded
  TITLE, PAGES AND FIRST NAMES ESTABLISHED 2026-10-03 from Crossref: the block recorded none of them. PINPOINT from /two-party-hive-mind: "scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding". VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 in the Crossref abstract, after journals.sagepub.com returned HTTP 403. WHICH PAGE CARRIES THE WORDS: THE ABSTRACT, and the words are the authors' own conclusion - "We conclude that there is scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S." The phrase does continue "in the U.S.", as the block believed. NOTE THE DOI YEAR: the suffix reads 2024 but Crossref gives the print issue as 2023; the DOI year is Sage's minting year, not the issue date. Carried on the page as what counts against the finding.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.

The register defines PROBABLE as: Well supported, but an interpretation or connection across sources rather than something a source states directly.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13

BATCH 2 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from HOW A HIVE DEFENDS ITSELF, HOW A HIVE MOVES AS ONE BODY or US AND THEM — wording unchanged. The moved spans still carry the page's own reference numbers in brackets; converting them to SRC numbers is held for a pass of its own.

2026-10-13

BATCH 3 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from WHERE YOU'LL FIND IT, CULTS, THE PARTY HIVE MIND or THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND — wording unchanged. The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

2026-10-13

BATCH 4 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE MIND — wording unchanged. The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

2026-10-13

BATCH 5 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from OTHER NAMES, WHO BUILDS THE HIVE, WHERE THE EVIDENCE STANDS or WHAT FOLLOWS — wording unchanged. The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

Later entries that mention this observation: HSRP-419, HSRP-420.

8. Related observations

• HSRP-024 · PROBABLE · The seven priest-class markers (HSRP-086–092)
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-163 · ESTABLISHED · The Authoritarian Blueprint: institutional information-dominance strategy
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-174 · ESTABLISHED · Authoritarian Blueprint formally designated a top-level HSRP framework
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-317 · PROBABLE · Programmable PV and Narrative-Synchronized PV. Where identity fusion with an authority source replaces independent belief formation, new beliefs enter the identity layer directly, bypassing cementing — producing maximum-intensity defence of positions adopted days earlier with no connective tissue between successive positions.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-412 · AUTHOR'S POSITION · THE AUTHOR'S DETERMINATION (the author's position): the line has been crossed. The author sets the model of institutionalized necrophilia beside the research as a determinant condition. His argument: a government that claims to rule a people because they cannot rule themselves, citing their immorality, must draw from that same stock the individuals who decide how it acts; absent morality within the institution, and having embodied the necrophilia harbored in the individuals of the population, the government is in a position and on a trajectory to devolve, and has thus crossed the line. Texts set beside the argument, each established as a text: Jefferson's First Inaugural (1801), Plato's Republic VIII, Federalist No. 55, John Adams to the Massachusetts Militia (1798) and Polybius VI.9. Necrophilia is Erich Fromm's term for an orientation of character in a person (Fromm, "Creators and Destroyers", 1964); its application to institutions is this project's model, and none of the texts quoted establishes that model. Polybius's own caution is kept: the stage of decline can be read, the time cannot, so the page names no date. The duty that follows is stated as the author's: to act on that knowledge, righteously and by lawful means, under a judgment that belongs to God (Acts 5:29); Nuremberg Principle IV is cited as a parallel only. The site's rule stands beside it: this is a moral judgment and no defense in any court (United States v. Benabe).
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-446 · PROBABLE · A cue from the source a hive trusts moves members more than a persuasive message does, even against their earlier views and in either direction.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-448 · WORKING · Whoever holds a hive's trusted source can turn it without persuading its members one by one; the defense shields the line from outsiders and leaves it open to the center. That is how the mechanism serves obedience.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-453 · PROBABLE · Norms, network spread and party cues, the chain's parts, are each studied on their own.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-455 · PROBABLE · With a center, most members follow a reset and refusers leave; without one, a body splits.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-456 · PROBABLE · Institutions on both sides of the gender question turned on political and legal cues rather than new evidence.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-514 · PROBABLE · For many partisans a party is a group they belong to, and the strength of that identity predicts their campaign work better than their issue views do.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-515 · PROBABLE · In the United States party now lines up with ideological, racial and religious identity, a "mega-identity" that raises bias and anger even where views are no more extreme.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-516 · PROBABLE · Americans increasingly dislike and distrust the other party, and that dislike has become a main driver of loyalty to their own; it is measured across Europe's multi-party systems too.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-517 · PROBABLE · Single-member plurality rules tend toward two main parties. It is a tendency, not a law; where it holds, each race narrows to two viable options and two platforms carry many unrelated questions.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-518 · AUTHOR'S POSITION · The author's model: two poles supply the "illusion of choice" that a single party cannot, and the two-party hive mind is "the false dichotomy of voting". That a party hive needs exactly two poles is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-533 · PROBABLE · From 1310 to 1687 seven Western condemnations, Catholic and Protestant, named an inner teaching as the offense where it claimed freedom from the office's means; mystics within the sacraments were made saints.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-534 · PROBABLE · Elsewhere an inner doctrine was named more often than it decided, with faction, succession or a crisis at the center at work too.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-538 · PROBABLE · A leading account treats religious belief as a by-product of ordinary thinking, such as the readiness to detect agents, re-created in each generation without a designer.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-539 · WORKING · What the record supports is interest without design: an office that runs the outer form gains a stake in keeping it, planned or not.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-544 · ESTABLISHED · Altemeyer's right-wing authoritarianism scale measures three attitudes that cluster: submission to established authority, aggression it approves, and conventionalism; "right-wing" means submission to whatever authority is established.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-545 · CONTESTED · The disposition values conformity above autonomy and is often measured by what a child should learn, which records an adult's values, not a rearing, and reads differently across US racial groups.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-546 · PROBABLE · Deference and readiness to punish go together, but modestly, and aggression does most of the work in predicting intolerance.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-547 · PROBABLE · High scorers agreed more often than others to help persecute a group the government had outlawed, whatever the target: left or right, religious or secular, their own kind included.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-548 · CONTESTED · A left-wing authoritarianism scale shares a core with the right-wing measures, though how common the left-wing form is remains disputed.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-549 · ESTABLISHED · Ordinary people obey: in Milgram's first study, 26 of 40 men went to the top of the shock board when pressed.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-594 · WORKING · Offices of opposed creeds made the same moves, licensing one body, closing the rest and condemning teaching that went around the office, from Rome's Senate in 186 BC to an Ottoman sultan and the Turkish republic; one designing class across history is not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-595 · WORKING · The research on avoiding unwelcome information explains avoidance by its expected cost, supporting this page's mechanism, not a builder behind it.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-596 · WORKING · Both poles close: the suppressed inner traditions and the offices that suppressed them both closed themselves off and appealed to a founding beyond review, and the difference lay in power and its outcomes.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-597 · WORKING · Design leaves a record of intent and convergence leaves parallel reactions without one. The author's determination would be borne out by internal records stating the aim of keeping inner teaching from the public so that it would obey, in more than one office and period, and weakened if the offices' own records showed other aims throughout. The test binds this site's own models too.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-598 · OPEN QUESTION · A record of intent shows that a message was designed, not that it built a hive: women's share of cigarette purchases had risen before Bernays's 1929 march, with no visible break at it.
  Relation: not recorded
• HSRP-600 · PROBABLE · Chronic stress remodels the brain in rats, the animal evidence for the stress chain; in people the findings stand at WORKING.
  Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “Whoever holds the trusted source can turn the body without persuading its members one by one: the route to obedience — WORKING ; a designed hive — not yet found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “For many partisans a party is a group they belong to, and the strength of that identity predicts their campaign work better than their issue views do — PROBABLE”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “Americans increasingly dislike and distrust the other party, and that dislike has become a main driver of loyalty to their own; it is measured across Europe's multi-party systems too — PROBABLE; the levels across Europe WORKING ; whether it harms democratic conduct is disputed”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “That the two party hive minds are steered by design — not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found; what is found is an incentive that rewards hostility”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “Suppression of inner teaching as such, or by design — not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “A designed religious hive — not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “This project adds a supply side, the AUTHORITARIAN BLUEPRINT : an institution floods the field with its consensus and suppresses the counter-signal — ESTABLISHED as this project's framework ; a designed hive — not yet found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “Suppression of inner teaching as such, or by design — not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “A hive needs no designer: conformity, trusted cues and shared incentives are enough, and interest can do the work credited to design — assembly through conformity and cues PROBABLE ; interest without design WORKING ; the incentive that rewards hostility PROBABLE”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “What the record leaves open is the narrower form: offices running an outer teaching used, kept, fixed and enforced the hives that formed around it, often openly — ESTABLISHED as acts, PROBABLE as a pattern ; a single design — not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “A designed hive is not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found”
• The Programmable Hive Mind
  “A designed two-party hive — not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found”
• The Two-Party Hive Mind
  “Register:”

Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /two-party-hive-mind, /the-hive-mind.

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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  "title": "THE TWO HIVE MINDS: party loyalty in the United States works as a social identity, and voters largely follow it. Rests on: the publisher's description of Achen and Bartels, Democracy for Realists (2016) (voters choose \"on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues\"; the book itself not opened); Finkel and fourteen co-authors, Science 370 (2020) (political sectarianism defined at p. 533; \"cold feelings toward the out-party now exceed warm feelings toward the in-party\", p. 533; a majority-party candidate \"could get elected despite openly violating democratic principles\", p. 535, reporting Graham and Svolik 2020, not opened); Rathje, Van Bavel and van der Linden, PNAS 2021 (each out-group term raised the odds of a post being shared by 67%, from the abstract, which gives n = 2,730,215; observational; sharing, not votes). Washington's Farewell Address (1796) is quoted as a text, the two fragments being the opening and closing words of one sentence. Against, carried on the page: Druckman, Green and Iyengar (2023) found \"scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S.\" That the two party hive minds are steered by design is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found; what is found is an incentive that rewards hostility. The model of the hive mind is this site's own, set out on /the-hive-mind, whose section 9 is \"THE TWO-PARTY ARCHITECTURE\", and on /psycho-vulgarism.",
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