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# Fear is politically useful because fear changes...
> Fear is politically useful because fear changes coalition behavior, voter attention, legislative urgency, tolerance for state intervention, regulatory preferences, and the distribution of institutional power.
**Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]]
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“Fear is politically useful because fear changes coalition behavior, voter attention, legislative urgency, tolerance for state intervention, regulatory preferences, and the distribution of institutional power.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-fear-politically-useful-distribution-institutional-power
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