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Fiendish Thingy

(22,456 posts) Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:19 PM Dec 2016

I learned new word today: Kakistocracy

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/17/degeneration-nation-it-takes-a-village-of-idiots-to-raise-a-kakistocracy-like-donald-trumps/

And here I thought we were just becoming a kleptocracy...

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I learned new word today: Kakistocracy (Original Post) Fiendish Thingy Dec 2016 OP

All the above....and we're a plutocracy and oligarchy! LongTomH Dec 2016 #1

More like "caca-istocracy" Laffy Kat Dec 2016 #2

I think it's from the Greek form of the word. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

So I wasn't so off base. Laffy Kat Dec 2016 #4

Yup. It's almost a universal word, it seems. MineralMan Dec 2016 #5

LongTomH

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1. All the above....and we're a plutocracy and oligarchy!

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Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:21 PM

Dec 2016

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Laffy Kat

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2. More like "caca-istocracy"

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:26 PM

Dec 2016

Sorry.

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MineralMan

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3. I think it's from the Greek form of the word.

Reply to Laffy Kat (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:28 PM

Dec 2016

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:kaka

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Laffy Kat

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4. So I wasn't so off base.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:33 PM

Dec 2016

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MineralMan

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5. Yup. It's almost a universal word, it seems.

Reply to Laffy Kat (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:35 PM

Dec 2016

Something that ties the languages together. Similar to Poopoo, I suppose, too.

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