<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Politics is the management of the voter's inner... > {{Politics is the management of the voter's inner primate at scale, and every practicing politician knows it. The behaviors that primatologists catalog, grooming allies, displaying strength, punishing defectors, scapegoating outsiders and rallying the troop against a common threat, are the operational vocabulary of every campaign in America, translated into polling, messaging, fundraising and media.}} [[reminders/Human Animality/Politics Manages the Voter's Inner Primate by Bryant McGill|∴]] [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] names the governing law of the animal: behavior appears where its price falls, and a coalition attacks when the attack is cheap. {{**Politics is chimpanzee coalition management at the scale of nations: the same animal counting allies, grooming loyalty and punishing defection, now equipped with ballots, cable news and a nuclear arsenal.**}} [[reminders/Human Animality/Politics Is Chimpanzee Coalition Management at National Scale by Bryant McGill|∴]] {{[[wiki/Coalitionary Aggression|Coalitionary aggression]] is the ancestral template of the political party, a group that defines itself against an out-group and will follow its members into violence before it will follow evidence into agreement.}} [[reminders/Human Animality/Political Parties Inherit Coalitionary Aggression by Bryant McGill|∴]] {{Humans inherited the coalition before they invented the argument, which is why a frightened electorate will choose a tribe long before it chooses a fact.}} [[reminders/Human Animality/Humans Inherited Coalitions Before Arguments by Bryant McGill|∴]] **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Politics is the management of the voter's inner primate at scale, and every practicing politician knows it. The behaviors that primatologists catalog, grooming allies, displaying strength, punishing defectors, scapegoating outsiders and rallying the troop against a common threat, are the operational vocabulary of every campaign in America, translated into polling, messaging, fundraising and media. ∴ Chimping Out names the governing law of the animal: behavior appears where its price falls, and a coalition attacks when the attack is cheap. Politics is chimpanzee coalition management at the scale of nations: the same animal counting allies, grooming loyalty and punishing defection, now equipped with ballots, cable news and a nuclear arsenal. ∴ Coalitionary aggression is the ancestral template of the political party, a group that defines itself against an out-group and will follow its members into violence before it will follow evidence into agreement. ∴ Humans inherited the coalition before they invented the argument, which is why a frightened electorate will choose a tribe long before it chooses a fact. ∴” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-politics-management-voters-before-chooses-fact ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->