Are We Living Under a Kakistocracy: Government by the Worst?

Those holding the highest offices tend to be venal, abusive, and incompetent in their official conduct, and are frequently revealed to be dissolute-sometimes heinous-in their personal lives.

And the masses who foolishly elevated such people to power have paid dearly for it in lost liberty and tumbling living standards.

So a government for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools" seems like an apt description for the state of the nation, as well as the world.

But, if we have found ourselves in a kakistocracy, how do we get out of it?

This is how Leonard Read, founder of FEE, answered that question.