Reform The Kakistocracy

Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens

By: William Kovacs

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Kakistocracy, is a term that describes what our government has become, a government controlled by "leaders" who are the least able or least principled citizens.

In Reform the Kakistocracy, Kovacs achieves two goals. He describes how the kakistocracy transformed our federal government from one of limited powers to one of immense power without any constitutional changes. Kovacs then provides a thought-provoking roadmap of governance principles and innovative policies to restructure the federal government by reducing debt and devolving power to state and local governments. He clearly explains how reversing the growth of the federal government can be done without constitutional changes.

Discussing the decades-long massive accumulation of federal power, Kovacs chronicles how our three branches of our government slowly revised their constitutional functions. Congress delegated its powers to an Executive branch that gladly assumed the new authority. Then through the aggressive issuance of new regulations and Executive Orders, the Executive branch made itself the primary federal lawmaker. Not only did the courts approve of new sweeping executive powers, but they also used their power to interpret the Constitution to create expanded judicial powers never envisioned by our nation's founders or Congress. These newly self-granted powers transformed the courts into super-legislators.

This new power structure separated the federal government from its citizens. It became the master and citizens the servants. The results are a debilitated constitutional system inflicting decades of policy failures, harmful wealth inequality, and the imposition of such massive amounts of debt that citizens will eventually live in involuntary servitude to the federal government.

Kovacs faults our political leaders for abandoning their fiduciary duty to the Constitution by giving their primary loyalty to political parties and interest groups. He highlights that political parties are not constitutional entities; they are merely associations of individuals, specifically organized, to take control of our government and the nation's assets. This transformation has removed the constitutional checks restraining the government from authoritarian rule.

Reform the Kakistocracy addresses the difficult questions - for whom did we form a government? Who should be the beneficiary of government policy? How do elected officials balance the many competing factors swirling around decision-making? Unlike many books on government reform, Reform the Kakistocracy does not let the reader dangle with vague answers. It provides innovative ways to restructure our federal government to work for citizens, not politicians, and collaborating interest groups.