Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-26018514-20191120004327

not really, it's the same stupid argument Sentry tried and failed to apply, up until he agreed with my reasoning exactly.

Yes, they are separate positions normally held by independent people that Ironwood happens to fill simultaneously, but because Remnant has less than 10 governments with which to establish precedent, they aren't as likely to even conceive this is a problem they should have addressed, much less would any individual on the council have the power or political will to address it as what if they acquired 2 seats in a similar way? It would serve only to cut their personal ambitions at the legs, otherwise what if they had issues all but solved and Ironwood lost a position causing it to become undecided before his new replacement caused a straight up loss.

Politics are dirty and ever-changing power dynamics, the moment you have the power to change things isn't the moment you give that power up, not even if you're altruistic to a fault.