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American poet James Russell Lowell, 1877: | |||
from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy| Wikipedia]] | <pre>"What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. Is it or is it not a result of Democracy? Is ours a 'government of the people by the people for the people,' or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"</pre> | ||
from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy| Wikipedia]] | |||
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* Corporatocracy = rule by corporations | * Corporatocracy = rule by corporations | ||
* Idiocracy = rule by idiots | * Idiocracy = rule by idiots | ||