This is quite interesting.  Our current government
fits a number of definitions on the list, namely the
following:

AUTOCRACY:-Government by one person having unlimited
powers.
DIABOLOCRACY:-Government by devils (real or imagined)
FOOLOCRACY:-Government by fools.
KAKISTOCRACY:-Governmentby the worst people in the
society.
NEOCRACY:-Government by the inexperienced.
OCHLOCRACY:-Government by the mobsters.
PORNOCRACY:-Government by harlots.
STRATOCRACY:-Government by the military.


--- Tom Coker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here is a piece I find in my old college notes.
> (Author unknown)
> This may be of interest to all you great worriors.
>
> We should be thankful we live in a democracy, a
> system of government that,
> Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address, said is
> "of the people, by the
> people,for the people."
>
> Democracy means literally, peoples power. Demography
> is the statistical
> study of people, for instance - and cracy is a stem
> that come from the Greek
> word meaning power or might. Not all forms of
> Government vest the power in
> the people, of course. So here is a list of other
> cracies.
>
> ARISTOCRACY:-Government by a small priviledge class
> or other.
> ARITHMOCRACY:-Government by the numerical majority.
> AUTOCRACY:-Government by one person having unlimited
> powers.
> CHRYSOCRACY:-Government by gold, literally or
> actually, Government by the
> rich.
> DIABOLOCRACY:-Government by devils (real or
> imagined)
> ERGATOCRACY:-Government by the workers.
> FOOLOCRACY:-Government by fools.
> GERONTOCRACY:-Government by old men.
> GYNECOCRACY:-Government by women.
> HEIROCRACY:-Government by ecclesiatics.
> HAGIOCRACY:-Government by holy men.
> KAKISTOCRACY:-Governmentby the worst people in the
> society.
> MESOCRACY:-Government by the middle class.
> NEOCRACY:-Government by the inexperienced.
> OCHLOCRACY:-Government by the mobsters.
> PANTISOCRACY:-Government in which all people rule
> equally, a utopian
> community.
> PLANTOCRACY:-Government by planters, plantation
> ownersas the ruling class.
> PLUTOCRACY:-Government by the rich.
> PORNOCRACY:-Government by harlots.
> STRATOCRACY:-Government by the military.
>
>
>
>
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