The Neuroscience of Bad Government

What brain anatomy and physiology can teach us about optimizing our political systems

Anna Mercury
7 min readMar 22

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Photo by Gaspar Uhas on Unsplash

Americans do not trust the government. Polls from Pew and Gallup alike show our trust and satisfaction with the state are in the toilet. Our quality of life is in decline. Our belief in the fairness of our economy is slipping. Our view of the country is changing…

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