There's a word for it - Kakistocracy (Reply #23)

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Wed Aug 2, 2017, 09:22 PM

vlyons (8,368 posts)

23. There's a word for it - Kakistocracy

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A kakistocracy (English pronunciation: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/) is a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the 1600s. It was also used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829.

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57 replies	Author	Time	Post
Pierce: The Historical Significance of 'Cosmopolitan' as an Insult [View all]	mcar	Aug 2017	OP
The world is upside down	madaboutharry	Aug 2017	#1
No shit	dalton99a	Aug 2017	#3
He should meet the MO governor	loyalsister	Aug 2017	#6
He is a schanda	Hekate	Aug 2017	#31
As must be his non-English speaking grandparents, from Poland, spinning in their graves n/t	BamaRefugee	Aug 2017	#41
His family are liberal Jews	IronLionZion	Aug 2017	#46
The GOP is slowly regressing.	guillaumeb	Aug 2017	#2
Eventually they will be crawling on all fours. Many already seem to be there already, for trump...nt	lostnfound	Aug 2017	#4
The theory of evolution goes both ways.	hunter	Aug 2017	#7
What a great reply.	guillaumeb	Aug 2017	#8
Exactly! Now you're talkin'	PatrickforO	Aug 2017	#19
When certain taxes are high...	hunter	Aug 2017	#24
So rump is truly a doddering fool. nt	blaze	Aug 2017	#40
Trump is infested with dodder	LeftInTX	Aug 2017	#43
think that started after lincoln w/ president johnson.	pansypoo53219	Aug 2017	#18
And eventually, the anti-slavery party	guillaumeb	Aug 2017	#20
Didn't even really take that long.	Ninsianna	Aug 2017	#52
I had no idea.	guillaumeb	Aug 2017	#53
I stumbled on it recently.	Ninsianna	Aug 2017	#54
We are all Devo!	DBoon	Aug 2017	#27
Devolution of RepubliCons	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2017	#33
An excellent cartoon. eom	guillaumeb	Aug 2017	#34
"historic signalling device"	AngryAmish	Aug 2017	#5
It's not only a historic signaling device - it's a conservative religious signaling	Nay	Aug 2017	#35
GOP is not present in WH anymore Reince was the last	benld74	Aug 2017	#9
Regardless, Rs own this	mcar	Aug 2017	#10
No argument on that	benld74	Aug 2017	#11
Sure everyone in the WH votes republican for thier local and state candidates	lunasun	Aug 2017	#26
Nuh-uh. They're all very true Scotsmen.	Iggo	Aug 2017	#29
Trump is too stupid to understand this.	TNNurse	Aug 2017	#12
Anti-Semitism has made a roaring comeback in the past two years.	beam me up scottie	Aug 2017	#13
And Miller is Jewish, so I've read	mcar	Aug 2017	#14
I've seen that too, it's unfathomable.	beam me up scottie	Aug 2017	#15
How do you put this uninformed goon in front of the camera?	mdbl	Aug 2017	#16
Shouldn't POTUS be required to pass the test immigrants take to become citizens,	SleeplessinSoCal	Aug 2017	#17
Miller is a bad night club comic who tries to offend everyone	rpannier	Aug 2017	#21
He is one creepy dude	mcar	Aug 2017	#22
There's a word for it - Kakistocracy	vlyons	Aug 2017	#23
Update it for modern times and link it to bad thought.	Shandris	Aug 2017	#25
Miller.. poster boy for a xenophobic, bigoted authoritarian.	pangaia	Aug 2017	#28
He's a squeaky bigoted piece of shit	ismnotwasm	Aug 2017	#30
I caught that, too, and it floored me. "Rootless cosmopolite" goes back way before Stalin, iirc...	Hekate	Aug 2017	#32
Interesting. Thanks.	Dark n Stormy Knight	Aug 2017	#36
"How does a Jew consider himself white?" Say what?	Hekate	Aug 2017	#42
I guess I didn't express myself clearly.	Dark n Stormy Knight	Aug 2017	#56
Are you confusing white with Nordic?	LeftInTX	Aug 2017	#49
I don't know really! I am just going by the fact that	Dark n Stormy Knight	Aug 2017	#55
This message was self-deleted by its author	ymetca	Aug 2017	#48
soooo, cosmopolitan, worldly, intellectual, are insults? dog whistles to the great	niyad	Aug 2017	#37
Miller	ouija	Aug 2017	#38
and I understand he has jewish heritage. self-loathing?	niyad	Aug 2017	#39
See my post above. It's specifically anti-Semitic because Jews were not "rooted" in "the land"...	Hekate	Aug 2017	#44
Since Trump took office I feel like I am on the set of the Twilight Zone. Completely other worldly.	geretogo	Aug 2017	#45
I keep thinking I am in a nightmare and will wake up --SOON	niyad	Aug 2017	#47
With miller's crack about the	xxqqqzme	Aug 2017	#50
hope millers is on kellys short shit list	samnsara	Aug 2017	#51
Foyle's War, First season, second episode has an example of cosmopolitan being used.	Lars39	Aug 2017	#57

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