A kakistocracy is when any organization (be that it small company, mega soulless corp, or at largest scale, a form of government) in which the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous individuals are in power. The term comes from the Greek words kakistos, meaning "worst," and kratos, meaning "rule" or "power."
Essentially, a kakistocracy is "rule by the worst." And remember, those who thirst the most for power, and often throughout all of history, because of their iron will to gain it, sadly too often do attain it, and because they are the least honorable, are the opposite of those who should actually have it. They fail upwards. Kak upward failures completely disregard principles of honesty, fairness, public service, and accountability to govern effectively and instead prioritize plutocratic gain, kleptocratic gain, and / or personal gain and nepotism over the well being of the public. Kakistocracy is often used as a pejorative term to criticize a corporation or government or corporatized government perceived as corrupt, self-serving, or ineffective for the people, and it's signature call sign characteristics are corruption + incompetence + low ethical standards by those within the formal halls of power. Who only admit those into their power cult because of little to nothing to do with their qualifications and nearly everything to do with blind loyalty. Which inevitably leads to crap decision-making and ineffective policies for the working class at best or highly damaging ones for the working class at worst.
Alchemy teaches that in binary reality, meaning the material world, meaning the Earth realm, meaning your personal life when your meat suit is breathing oxygen, and when doing so go out there and have a career in the professional world, there will always be some level of dysfunction, thus there will always be some level of corruption. Any place you've worked likely demonstrates this. We worked and lived in New Zealand for the better part of a year in our late 20's, and the New Zealand government is often listed as one of the least corrupt, most well functioning governments in the world. Be that in a small, somewhat homogeneous country. It even has a healthy amount of Māori (meaning the indigenous people of New Zealand) representation of MP's in their parliament. Some of which on occasion perform Haka's, their traditional ceremonial dance which is designed to intimidate opponents, not just on the-All Blacks rugby field but also on their parliament floor to protest hot garbage imperial bills that reduce working class, poor, or indigenous liberty. So even though New Zealand is quite good, of course it's never 100% non corrupt and outside of nature, anything created by man, never will be.
In our country, the US of A , up until 2024, there was corruption, but systems were generally working as intended because those in power actually tried to represent the people. But when you hate people that have to work for a living, now at the time of this writing in early 2025, those "we hate people because their born into sin and not in our cult" folks are back in power and like never before have cranked up the redlining levels of their corrupt criminals running the justice department, oil barons running the Environmental Protection Agency, demonstrably underqualified military personnel running the Department of Defence (which is really the Department of Offence) and a convicted felon and wanna be dictator in the office of the Commander and Chief. We can have a separate conversation about how much these agencies really do what they claim to do, but when they're also literally installing someone from the World Wrestling Federation to head the Department of Education, that's Mountain Dew instead of natural spring water. We have a similar level of respect for WWF that we do for Insane Clown Posse and the Kek clown show would also appoint the Grinch in charge of the Department of Christmas if they weren't already so mind controlled by the Christianization of the winter solstice.
Now why is this? A reminder that George Carlin said it well:
“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system far too often produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public.
And why do large swaths of the American public suck? IE, those who vote less democratic and more authoritarian. Because of three simple things - Heavy indoctrination into religion that sucks, with little education or no education that sucks, stacked with consistent long term exposure to a mountain of media that sucks. All by design which we'll continue to discuss.