{"id":2253,"date":"2026-08-23T06:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:35:23","slug":"kakistocracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/23\/kakistocracy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakistocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kakistocracy is a form of government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens, often leading to incompetence, corruption, and mismanagement.<\/p>\n

It’s essentially rule by the unfit.<\/p>\n

It’s not a new word (coined in 1644), but it very succinctly describes our current government and the MAGA administration, as they haplessly hurtle us towards another round of fascism.<\/p>\n

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(Sticker, Cologne, 7\/24\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kakistocracy is a form of government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens, often leading to incompetence, corruption, and mismanagement. It’s essentially rule by the unfit. It’s not a new word (coined in 1644), but it very succinctly describes our current government and the MAGA administration, as they haplessly hurtle us towards … Continue reading Kakistocracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-Al","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}