The reality is that we live in a kakistocracy. However, knowing how you are and what media you consume, you will say that it's a different reality.
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Kakistocracy
//kakɪsˈtɒkɹəsɪ//
Synonyms for "kakistocracy"
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15 translations across 14 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kakistokrasie noun (government by the worst citizens)
Catalan
1 entries- cacistocràcia noun (government by the worst citizens)
Dutch
1 entries- kakistocratie noun (government by the worst citizens)
Finnish
1 entries- kakistokratia noun (government by the worst citizens)
French
1 entries- kakistocratie noun (government by the worst citizens)
German
1 entries- Kakistokratie noun (government by the worst citizens)
Greek
1 entries- κακιστοκρατία noun (government by the worst citizens)
Irish
1 entries- suarlathas noun (government by the worst citizens)
Italian
1 entries- cachistocrazia noun (government by the worst citizens)
Polish
1 entries- kakistokracja noun (government by the worst citizens)
Portuguese
1 entries- caquistocracia noun (government by the worst citizens)
Russian
1 entries- какистокра́тия noun (government by the worst citizens)
Spanish
2 entries- cacocracia noun (government by the worst citizens)
- caquistocracia noun (government by the worst citizens)
Thai
1 entries- ทรชนาธิปไตย noun (government by the worst citizens)
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Kakistocracy refers to power that is given to or seized by incompetent people.
Source: tatoeba (13398413)
Therefore we need not make any scruple of praying against […] those restlesse spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and medling; who are stung with a perpetuall itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old Hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this againe into a newer Independency; and our well-temperd Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy.
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The people lived in darkness and vassalage. […] they were utterly destitute of the blessing of those "schools for all," the house of correction, and the treadmill, wherein the autochthonal justice of our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity, […]
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