# If that's not an emolument, I don't know what is

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**Created:** [October 17, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-thats-not-an-emolument-i-dont-know-what-is/841919 "2019-10-17T19:23:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-thats-not-an-emolument-i-dont-know-what-is/841919/81 "2019-10-23T03:15:17Z")

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> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Well this is kinda what happens when all the checks and balances are under the control of the same people.  
> Normally this is the point where the voters themselves act as the ultimate check, but thanks to your weird-ass, gerrymandered electoral systems that’s no going to work either. Even if we politely ignore the fact that a good fourth of the country is fully on board with the lunacy and only howls for moar, moar, MOAR to cuck the libz.
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> As for what happens next ? Dictatorship, usually.

Gerrymandering is part of the problem, but there’s no saving ourselves from ourselves.

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