<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # 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]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “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 ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->