"Kakistocracy" is word of the day!

in #life6 years ago

The word of the day is kinda what is obtained in Nigeria and some other countries world wide.
'Kakistos' in Greek means “worst.”

The word is pronounced \kak-uh-STAH-kruh-see, and means “government by the worst people.” The plural form is kakistocracies.
The word was first used by Paul Gosnold in 1644, using the word “our well-temperd Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy.” Source


1644 is a long time ago and having that word used means, bad and horrible leadership is as old as time. This means that whatever is happening now, has happened before and as we are doing now, some persons have done before.


I Feel Blessed!


Kakistocracy sounds funny as a word but it also is one wicked kind of funny word. In Nigeria and world over, the kind of leadership being practiced and handed over to the people is one that can well be termed a Kakistocratic governance.

The leadership style being seen world over is a perfect definition of our word of today. Leadership has become a terrible reality. Nigeria has the worst kinds of leaders who have been known to harvest the lives of their citizens just so they stay relevant. Relevance driven by greed.

It is only in Nigeria and Africa that leadership is reserved for "old Senile and Criminally Insane Persons."


The word was recently used by John Brennan, a former CIA Director while addressing President Trump. See tweet below.


Well, there you have it. Our word of the day is...

Kakistocracy!


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'is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens'

Certainly!
Now that is a word to describe Nigeria's politics.But I still believe there is enough room for change
Hopefully,we will get to see that soon

It is really not fair at all, it is like autocratic leadership, they dont even care about welfare of the citizens

The word sure sounds funny but defines our present leadership system ..a government that harvest us just to stay relevant ,that careless about our well fare and well being,..a system that is continuously controlled by old people who have run out of ideas ...sometimes I wonder if we actually have democracy ...
Am positive though I know I will get better in the near futur

There's a theory someone developed, i think is true;

He said when God was blessing countries, he started with Africa and placed us with natural resources and subsequently the natural resources began to deplete and before he got to the foreigners, all that was left was natural disasters. Then to make it even, he blessed the foreigners with good leaders Nd then gave us bad leaders. So that way, we have sufficient resources with bad leadership.

I don't totally agree with the theory, as true as it looks. But the foreigners still have a fair share of the bad leadership. For me, i don't think it's a "nigeria" problem. It's a global problem but with high prevelance in Nigeria.

We'd be fine, we'd survive.

Thanks for sharing. I'd tell my SUG president that this is what he is practicing.

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This APC government is kakistocratic!!!😄😄😄thanks for this perfect word that well befits this our government I've been looking for the right word to describe them long ago..kakistocracy! O boy I go finish them with English today 😀😀thanks boss

But this Nigeria government can be call hectic-kakistocrazy OR worst-kakistocrazy

Kakistocracy never heard of the word before thanks for educating us sir, thanks for the other day sir, God bless you @ejemai

Some persona would bite their tongues. I have learnt a new one today. Thanks Sir

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