Holling VinCoure was a clever fellow

Imagine your goal is to get only the whole strawberries in a slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie, and still make portions for the other people who want pie. You'd have to have a very sharp knife, and know where all the strawberries are, and the condition of the pie must allow it. You'd make a twisting wild slice that was continuous from berry to berry, and still be able to call it representative pie-sharing. You'd be able to keep all the whole strawberries for yourself, and call it a democratic process for slicing the pie.

Or, for the fantasy minded

It is the ring of power, which many parties have used, and which (so far) none have the ability to destroy instead of use.