okay...KAKistocracy...but still mindboggling all the same.
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?posts/7197737/
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?posts/12140189/
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?threads/kakistocracy-google-it.923628/
The Atlantic Confirms It: We Are Living In A Kakistocracy
I can speak from firsthand knowledge that living through 11 presidencies of varying degrees of competence (and the occasional scandal or criminality) gives you some perspective on what we are experiencing today. Norman Ornstein, political scientist and resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, has lived through 13 of them. What he sees with the Trump Administration is something so unique it needs a special word to describe it, a word that has been out of popular usage for nearly two centuries. The word is “kakistocracy.”
kakistocracy (English pronunciation: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/) is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. ... It was also used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but gained significant usage in the 21st century.
Kakistocracy - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
Orntein’s assessment of the Trump Administration, published in The Atlantic, is as considered as it is blunt:
Kakistocracy is back, and we are experiencing it firsthand in America. The unscrupulous element has come into sharp focus in recent weeks as a string of Trump Cabinet members and White House staffers have been caught spending staggering sums of taxpayer dollars to charter jets, at times to go small distances where cheap commercial transportation was readily available, at times to conveniently visit home areas or have lunch with family members. While Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was forced to resign after his serial abuse, others—including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, remain in place.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...Are-Living-In-A-Kakistocracy?detail=emaildkre
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?posts/7197737/
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?posts/12140189/
http://www.bgol.us/forum/index.php?threads/kakistocracy-google-it.923628/
The Atlantic Confirms It: We Are Living In A Kakistocracy
I can speak from firsthand knowledge that living through 11 presidencies of varying degrees of competence (and the occasional scandal or criminality) gives you some perspective on what we are experiencing today. Norman Ornstein, political scientist and resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, has lived through 13 of them. What he sees with the Trump Administration is something so unique it needs a special word to describe it, a word that has been out of popular usage for nearly two centuries. The word is “kakistocracy.”
kakistocracy (English pronunciation: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/) is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. ... It was also used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but gained significant usage in the 21st century.
Kakistocracy - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
Orntein’s assessment of the Trump Administration, published in The Atlantic, is as considered as it is blunt:
Kakistocracy is back, and we are experiencing it firsthand in America. The unscrupulous element has come into sharp focus in recent weeks as a string of Trump Cabinet members and White House staffers have been caught spending staggering sums of taxpayer dollars to charter jets, at times to go small distances where cheap commercial transportation was readily available, at times to conveniently visit home areas or have lunch with family members. While Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was forced to resign after his serial abuse, others—including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, remain in place.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...Are-Living-In-A-Kakistocracy?detail=emaildkre
