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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts) Fri Apr 13, 2018, 12:35 PM Apr 2018

Gotta love the Merriam-Webster Twitter account!

Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster 11:06 AM - Apr 13, 2018

'Kakistocracy': government by the worst people https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/brennan-your-kakistocracy-is-collapsing-20180413 …

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Gotta love the Merriam-Webster Twitter account! (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 OP

Brennan: Your 'Kakistocracy' is Collapsing - Trending 4/13/2018 riversedge Apr 2018 #1

I think it is related to "caca" etymologically central scrutinizer Apr 2018 #2

By the worst, for the worst, of the worst ck4829 Apr 2018 #3

Also Krapistocracy with this regime. appalachiablue Apr 2018 #4

Wikipedia also has least qualified, unscrupulous IronLionZion Apr 2018 #5

"often identified by spray tan and combovers, with the taste and class of Jersey Shore cast" yurbud Apr 2018 #6

Yeah man! I had to look it up. ! California_Republic Apr 2018 #7

Mahalo, fleur.. I was going to look that Cha Apr 2018 #8

riversedge

(70,238 posts)

1. Brennan: Your 'Kakistocracy' is Collapsing - Trending 4/13/2018

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 12:43 PM

Apr 2018

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Brennan [to #Trump] : Your 'Kakistocracy' is Collapsing - Trending 4/13/2018

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/brennan-your-kakistocracy-is-collapsing-20180413
Apr 13, 2018
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Kakistocracy was among our top lookups on April 13th, 2018, rising 13,700% after its appearance in a tweet by former CIA Director John O. Brennan.
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The Greek root 'kakistos' means “worst.”

The word is pronounced kak-uh-STAH-kruh-see, and means “government by the worst people.” The plural form is kakistocracies. Our earliest evidence for its use comes from 1644, when it was used by Paul Gosnold to warn about transforming “our well-temperd Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy.” Following this the word had a period of relative inactivity, and reappeared in the early 19th century.

central scrutinizer

(11,649 posts)

2. I think it is related to "caca" etymologically

Reply to riversedge (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 12:57 PM

Apr 2018

As in shit. Cacophony - sounds bad

ck4829

(35,077 posts)

3. By the worst, for the worst, of the worst

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 01:05 PM

Apr 2018

Let's face it, it's not *our* government.

You call up the government, you'll get some auto canned reply. Ethan Couch or some coked up rich boy does it though, he'll have direct access to a legislator in a couple of minutes.

Look at who still celebrates the 2016 'election'... People who think "economic anxiety" means "I don't want to work alongside black people or Mexicans", people who think 'good national security' means "Well at least the shooter was white so... win", people who think America was last great before the civil war "even though there might have been just a teeny amount of slavery", people who 'joke' about the Holocaust, and the people who think Pizzagate was real. Real pieces of work.