2006 MMO culture was spending 12 hours a week in officer chat with 6 other teenagers discussing the political tensions and regulations of your guild, <International House of Pwnage>
Montesquieu on checks and balances, 1748: "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, there can be no liberty."
American politicians, 2021: "Liberty is your check adding to my balance."
"‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ He did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest."