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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

it is as Adamo says......


7 posted on 01/31/2008 6:56:51 PM PST by prognostigaator
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To: prognostigaator
["America is being given a glimpse of just how morally and ethically vacant so many among its so called “leaders” really are."]

The Greeks had a term for this -- Kakistocracy.

SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy
PRONUNCIATION: kk-stkr-s, käk-
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos,bad; see caco– + –cracy.

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8 posted on 01/31/2008 7:51:21 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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