Posted on 01/04/2019 4:27:32 PM PST by Twotone
Kakistocracy is a badly underused word which needs to make a major comeback this year, as it is perfectly descriptive of the cabal of loons, clowns, demagogues, crooks and halfwits who are now in charge of the House of Representatives.
The literal definition of the word is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. It’s been around for a few hundred years, but overtaken by others perhaps more colorful to describe slimeball government. Kleptocracy, for example, has a real ring to it.
But in surveying the crowd now in charge, who elected Nancy Pelosi for another tour of duty as the Speaker of the House, it’s not enough to call this a kleptocracy or an idiocracy. There are for certain crooks and idiots among the new House majority, and even within its leadership and committee chairs.
But there is so much more depravity and disqualification than that. Kakistocracy is really the word.
Start with Pelosi, who’s a proven commodity. She got four years as House Speaker from 2007-2011, after which the American people reacted to her governance as they would a rabid coyote in the front yard. She’s hardly improved since — if anything, the episodic moonbattery, unnatural facial tics, brazen public untruths, and irrational pronouncements have become even more frequent and frightening than they were a dozen years ago. That’s not a surprise given Pelosi’s age and clearly declining faculties.
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Dems are so crazy they often make the Republicans look good, which is no small feat. The last Republican congress was a disgrace.
This is definitely going to be a brutal political year.
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Yes it will be. This will take Washington to a whole new level of dysfunctionality, bickering and political retribution.
These are radical and unreasonable people with whom there can be no compromise or rational coexistence. They are a clear and present danger to a stable democratic society that used to settle its political differences through the election system. That is no longer the case. You are correct; this nonsense is driving the nation toward a very dangerous place.
The kakistocrats are traitors to the United States of America.
You and I aren’t changing anything. Unless one of us is secretly Abraham Lincoln or George Washington.
Nothing is going to happen over the next two years. No one has control. The best course to take is sit back and enjoy the show.
There are clowns all over the place.
Congress has turned into a freak show.
I like my term: racist, regressive fascists.
Perhaps that label on her office door should be written with felt tipped marker on masking tape, just to show how temporary her tenure will be.
Heh....I like it.
kak•is•toc•ra•cy Kakistocracy n. pl. kak•is•toc•ra•cies Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’ra-cy) A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Hmmm....maybe I was channeling a Greek scholar rather than my inner 3-year old as I assumed!
Etymology is one of my favorite pasttimes. Yes, there are some surprising derivations out there.
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