1.0 link 132417 <![CDATA[Kakistocracy... A Word You Should Know]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-finkelstein/kakistocracy-a-word-you-s_b_132417.html "Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens (from the Greek kakistos "worst.")

I heard the word over dinner the other night. It probably describes the current state of the union better than any single term I know of. Its first known appearance was in 1829 in The Misfortunes of Elphin, written by the English satirical writer Thomas Love Peacock. The American poet James Russell Lowell wrote in a letter in 1876: "Is ours a government of the people,...

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