An Alarming First Week

[DonViejo]

Ryan Lizza: “Seven days may not be enough time to fully assess any new leader, especially in the case of Trump, whose first week was marked by seeming chaos in his efforts to put together an Administration. But what we’ve learned so far about the least-experienced President-elect in history is as troubling and ominous as his critics have feared.”

“The Greeks have a word for the emerging Trump Administration: kakistocracy. The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as a ‘government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.’ Webster’s is simpler: ‘government by the worst people.'”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/11/16/alarming-first-week-trump/

[Baitball Blogger]

1. If the Greeks had a word for it, I wonder why our past experiences hasn't provided enough

reason for it to have become more prominently known.


Yes. kakistocracy makes sense. Just a little more for it to sound like catastrophically.

[2naSalit]

2. I agree with your observation

and to play with it further...

What you suggest may actually identify the Greek term with the suggested present day English word. There have been s few significant "shifts" in major languages that have transformed words over time and distance as with the Great Consonant Shift, aka: Grimm's Law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law , so I posit that such a set of linguistical change events may have actually occurred giving us the word catastophy and all its forms.

And, a new word for the day: Catastocracy to describe what our society looks like at this point in time and our political history.

for reference http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consonant%20shift