A first for me - a word I wish I never heard of:
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| Possibly Photoshopped, but it makes the point. |
kakistocracy - government by the worst element of a society, coined in 1829 by Thomas Love Peacock , an analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos "worst," superlative of kakos "bad" (which perhaps is related to the general Indo-European word for "defecate;" see caco- + -cracy.
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