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(slang, derogatory) A democracy, particularly an ineffective or dysfunctional one..
Democratic Hot Shot from a Republican Standpoint. Don’t vote for [George Hunt] Pendleton and poverty. The dumbocracy and aristocracy all support Pendleton and poverty. […] The Democracy are economical. That’s the reason they fail to pay the interest on the State debt, and pocketed the cash instead. No economy about paying your debts, from a Democratic standpoint.
Dumbocracy in action. Is fatal --- get thee behind me, God!
It is more like a "dumbocracy" that the Minister of Energy might recognise.
The democratization of art and culture for political purposes will only make us dumber than we are, and dumbocracy in America is presently at its height.
The only reason they agreed to dumbocracy and was that they saw how it would deliver up a servile, compliant, docile population who would delude themselves that they were "free" and in charge, hence would never revolt.
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Dumbocracy means (slang, derogatory) A democracy, particularly an ineffective or dysfunctional one..
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Democratic Hot Shot from a Republican Standpoint. Don’t vote for [George Hunt] Pendleton and poverty. The dumbocracy and aristocracy all support Pendleton and poverty. […] The Democracy are economical. That’s the reason they fail to pay the interest on the State debt, and pocketed the cash instead. No economy about paying your debts, from a Democratic standpoint.
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