The word kakistocracy, meaning "government by the worst citizens," is "a word worth remembering," he quips. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News-Record] Reference
Why must we be ruled by a "kakistocracy" -- a government by the worst citizens?. From Wordnik.com. [KeysNews.com -] Reference
Steve Bell's Gordon as a big baby in a pooh-filled nappy may well have created the perfect image of the "kakistocracy". From Wordnik.com. [The New Deal: Not a Success] Reference
U.S.A. - From democracy to kakistocracy in one fell coup. From Wordnik.com. [Action Alert! Oppose Asbestos Bill S.852; Call your Members of Congress] Reference
I'm betting Gordon Brown will raise the bar on kakistocracy even higher. From Wordnik.com. [The New Deal: Not a Success] Reference
Thus matters will go on, until universal anarchy, or kakistocracy, the government of the worst, is fully established. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
As we learned from the Madison girl in the spelling bee, the word being sought after by that author was "kakistocracy.". From Wordnik.com. ["Following links is like putting on 3-D glasses."] Reference
Surely after 10 years of NuLabour, you can't deny that the benchmark for kakistocracy has moved on from citing the Tories?. From Wordnik.com. [The New Deal: Not a Success] Reference
She has three favorite words, we see in the bioclip, and one is "kakistocracy, which means government by the worst people possible.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
We can no longer deny the truth of what we have lost in this sinkhole that is not a democracy, but both a corporatocracy and a kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy, Let's Roar] Reference
That, if FMD is shown to have escaped because of flooding, will be a most grave matter which will undoubtedly redound on this Labour kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-05] Reference
Well my understanding of 18 years of tory kakistocracy was that unemployment was a good thing, and that 3 million unemployed was the sign of a vibrant fast moving economy. From Wordnik.com. [The New Deal: Not a Success] Reference
An example of nepotism that is poisoning us by Bucky the Commoner on Monday, Jul 14, 2008 at 10: 04: 25 AM from meritocracy to kakistocracy by Levon on Monday, Jul 14, 2008 at 10: 14: 26 AM. From Wordnik.com. [The Decline of Empires in the Past, the Future of the United States and the Contribution of President Bush] Reference
The American poet James Russell Lowell wrote in a letter in 1876: "Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?". From Wordnik.com. [Rick Finkelstein: Kakistocracy... A Word You Should Know] Reference
There's a website getyourkidtovote. com that encourages parents to send kakistocracy tee shirts to their college age kids to remind them and their classmates of the stakes in this election and to encourage them to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Finkelstein: Kakistocracy... A Word You Should Know] Reference
It is, as Choen notes elsewhere, a kakistocracy, or rule by the worst. From Wordnik.com. [Piece Of Mind] Reference
Only now we no longer live in a democracy, but have devolved into a kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [David Marshall's blog] Reference
The kakistocracy in Washington will help itself to as much money and power as we let them take. From Wordnik.com. [Moonbattery] Reference
This explains how it has come to pass that the present regime of incumbents constitues a kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I welcome this opportunity for the world to experience a kakistocracy and the potential of it's people. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
He was not concerned with aristocracy in general, but with the particular kakistocracy that had disgraced his native land. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
After the last seven years of kakistocracy the last thing this country needs is a third Clinton term with these disingenuous pricks. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary: DNC Should Seat The Michigan And Florida Delegates] Reference
True enough, but yatha praja, tatha raja: It appears our abdication of responsibility has resulted in the nation suffering from a kakistocracy -- rule by the most undesirable people. From Wordnik.com. [rediff.com] Reference
I was wrong thinking that we had a plutocracy system of government, when there is another far worse system of government that Schott lists "as the worst possible," called a "kakistocracy.". From Wordnik.com. [Big Brass Blog] Reference
It represents the last gasp of a grasping, imperious and unprincipled kakistocracy (government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens) desperately clinging to power for the sheer sake of it. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
You’re dreaming of an oligarchy when all you’ll get (and already have) is a kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Totenberg: Alito Will Move The Court “Dramatically To The Right”] Reference
kakistocracy is and I'm not making this up "Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.". From Wordnik.com. [Carrot Jockeys Make Excellent Ground Troops] Reference
And they'll never let you down kakistocracy; noun government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power. From Wordnik.com. [KeysNews.com -] Reference
For some reason, the terms “Paraguay,” “kleptocracy,” “inept-ocracy” and “kakistocracy” keep popping into my mind, and there’s not even a Spelling Bee on right now to bring those words to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - “Black is white”; no, it’s black.] Reference
(Or even a kakistocracy). From Wordnik.com. [Re: The Presidency Has Become A Great Business Opportunity] Reference
The word for today is “kakistocracy”. From Wordnik.com. [Jindal, the Coast Guard, and the barges: government efficiency at its finest] Reference
We live under an insolent kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Moonbattery] Reference
It essentially reduced India to a kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Atanu Dey on India's Development] Reference
In the 19th century, the term was kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Commentator] Reference
Sinecure kakistocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Jas9 Taipei.] Reference
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