Posted on 11/19/2013 6:24:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
This is surely a textbook example of this:
kakistocracy (n.) Look up kakistocracy at Dictionary.com
1829, “government by the worst element of a society,” coined on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos “worst,” superlative of kakos “bad” (which perhaps is related to the general IE word for “defecate;” see caco-) + -cracy.
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