Killing Kakistocracy

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-05 13:32:19 | Updated at 2024-11-05 23:28:03 10 hours ago

Killing Kakistocracy
American Thinker ^ | 5 Nov, 2024 | Tom McAllister

Posted on 11/05/2024 5:03:52 AM PST by MtnClimber

The website, Dictionary.com defines kakistocracy as “a government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.” Other sources concur, describing it as leadership by the least competent and most unscrupulous. It’s a head-scratcher, really—how do these individuals manage to fail their way upward and claim the most powerful seats in government?

If you’ve been keeping up with current events, it’s hard not to conclude that the United States is stumbling into a kakistocracy. Case in point is a president, an “elderly man with a poor memory,” whose cognitive issues and frail health allowed him to dodge legal scrutiny under the guise of public sympathy. Joe Biden was never known as the “sharpest knife in the drawer,” but his current level of performance became so glaringly destitute that he required strong “encouragement” to abandon his re-election ambitions. And yet, the problem of obvious ineffectiveness isn’t just a “Joe thing.” Glancing at the Cabinet and other key positions of this administration, does anyone inspire confidence or stand out as the poster child of competence? Anyone? Bueller?

History is littered with examples of kakistocracies. The Roman empire had its fair share of inept rulers such as Nero and Commodus (among others) but was able to endure and overcome them until other compounding factors led to the empire’s eventual fall. Other regimes were not so lucky. Many are familiar with the biblical story found in the book of Daniel, where King Belshazzar’s foolish rule ended dramatically when the divine “handwriting on the wall” pronounced that the king had been weighed on the scales and found deficient, leading to his abrupt downfall.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: democrats

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1 posted on 11/05/2024 5:03:52 AM PST by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

The democRAT party is “Club Kakistocracy”.

2 posted on 11/05/2024 5:04:08 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

Government should be small and weak. It should not have the resources to allow it to send a SWAT team on a five hour mission to kill a squirrel.

3 posted on 11/05/2024 5:07:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: MtnClimber

‘Joe Biden was never known as the “sharpest knife in the drawer,” but his current level of performance became so glaringly destitute that he required strong “encouragement” to abandon his re-election ambitions.’

Biden has always been a horrible person. He does not get “elder statesman” status. Well before he went senile, he was a corrupt POS.

4 posted on 11/05/2024 5:08:12 AM PST by cdcdawg ("She runs a mean pick six," said Tim Walz, a fraud.)

To: MtnClimber

Maybe it’s time to change my tagline finally.

There is a nexus of problems that come together to cause all the worst people ending up governing.
First is that sociopaths are attracted to control and manipulation. The high functioning sociopaths who don’t end up in jail because they suppress and harness their need to manipulate people end up as CEOs and politicians. They can’t help it. Their thirsts are never quenched.

Second is the fact that career establishment politicians are prone to laziness. They are not “statesmen”. They surround themselves with people who do the menial stuff as well as the heavy lifting. That leaves them more time to machinate. They are good at drinking, networking, and maneuvering. All of their other cognitive skills wither in their debauchery.

Good people are neither attracted to politics, nor do they have the temperament to thrive in it when they do get in.

5 posted on 11/05/2024 5:17:53 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)

To: MtnClimber

It surely shows all the evidence of being just that.

6 posted on 11/05/2024 5:28:37 AM PST by oldtech

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