Kakistocracy
A kakistocracy ([kækɪ'stɑkrəsi]) is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century, but gained significant use in the first decades of the 20th century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
Word of the Day (Political)
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Word of the Day (Political)
"In the land of idiots, the moron is King."
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"Ruh roh" you used my favorite word of the past couple of years! I might have even placed that on this page. It seems like to me that these populists around the world are literally described by this word.userque wrote:Kakistocracy
A kakistocracy ([kækɪ'stɑkrəsi]) is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century, but gained significant use in the first decades of the 20th century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
Crazy how history repeats itself. You would think with all the information available, people would make better decisions. I think that ship has sailed as people have decided to close themselves off in their own networks of information.
Re: Word of the Day (Political)
Like thisuserque wrote:Kakistocracy
A kakistocracy ([kækɪ'stɑkrəsi]) is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century, but gained significant use in the first decades of the 20th century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
Re: Word of the Day (Political)
I don't see anything.Bubba wrote:Like thisuserque wrote:Kakistocracy
A kakistocracy ([kækɪ'stɑkrəsi]) is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century, but gained significant use in the first decades of the 20th century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
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Re: Word of the Day (Political)
They post an image from a website.ArrieS wrote:I don't see anything.Bubba wrote:Like thisuserque wrote:Kakistocracy
A kakistocracy ([kækɪ'stɑkrəsi]) is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, and/or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century, but gained significant use in the first decades of the 20th century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
That website likely copied the image from page 11 (or one of the other similar pages) of this pdf:
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/hand ... port_0.pdf
"In the land of idiots, the moron is King."
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