Kakistrocracy   It does no good to mock them, true, but mocking them is irresistible — we’ve always made fun of fools. Before there was talk, there was derision; before there was politics, there was the desire to shame. Why pretend otherwise? But these people, you just can’t shame them — they won’t listen, they fry the wrong fish, they think the wrong thoughts, they do their fandango of unreason and love themselves for it. They want their kakistocracy — a word from Greeks who’d seen enough of monkeys to know how they scream and squawk and crown the monkey most without a whit of sense, then shriek and smear themselves with shit.     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont March 2017