We live in a cause and effect world, and hence a cause and effect society. The problem is that there are few members of the society that know this and even fewer who connect the cause they engage in being connected to the effect that they do not intend.

Auction-ocracy Our elected officials are bought by the highest bidders.

The United States is not a democracy but a democratic republic. It means that majority opinion usually but not always rules.
I would like to live in a representative democracy where the will of the people wasn't continually blocked by filibusters or the People's house had more members so that legislation actually had popular support. 1 member per 700,000 citizens is too low a ratio for me.

Availability Bias/(misperception)

Delaying conception/family planning b/c you know women who had babies in their 40s. Big mistake....

"short-term thinking ocracy"

A gadgetocracy, in which we are too addicted to and distracted by numerous forms of push-button immediate gratification and quick fixes, and lack the discipline to restore and maintain a healthy democracy.

Arbitrary Convention-ocracy

Any governing we do is a convention that is relatively arbitrary as it compares to the universe in which we happen to reside.

Whoops, Brian, "-ocracy" is a suffix, not a prefix.

narrative-ocracy

I fully second and agree with your last caller Ruth, who is obviously a very intelligent last caller.

badmornigshowcracy

WTF-ocracy!
Because maybe people are waking upfrom a snoozocracy finding out

narrative-ocracy

uberocracy

narrative-ocrcy

the way the teaparty will do anything to block the president..we live in a "they hate barackracy"

I'd call what the 1st caller described (people w/connections get jobs) a nepotocracy.

Myopicracy - Short sighted

greed-ocracy

Hole in my shoe, hole in my sockracy

No-ocracy! We live in an oligarchy.

Consumptocracy

Its a greedocracy

kleptocracy is pretty accurate

I hate to be the one to invoke the F-bomb, but there's a special word for a system of government that's been captured by industry and industrial interests, and it doesn't end in 'ocracy'.

Greed-ocracy

Our current system combines two elements out of classical debates about politics. Gerontocracy: rule of all by the old. And plutocracy: government by and for the wealthy.

Debt-ocracy

An imbalocracy.

Without the 99%, the 1% wouldn't have what they have.

You can't have one without the other.

I don't believe it's an 'ocracy' at all, we are now living in an oligarchy.

An " I-Want-Someone-To-Pay-Me-For-Being-Me-ocracy "

Media and politics and messaging seems to be shaped, at least influenced, by pundits - be they in media, politics, wall street, entertainment, YouTube, journalists, etc.
It seems that soundbites shape our overall conversation, thus a PUNDITocracy. Twitter enables everyone to be heard through a soundbite, empowering more to play the role of 'pundit' in any given field. 'nuff said.

FOXOCRACY

Domination of the national conversation by multinational business-funded interests that have no stake in the success of the USA and the quality of life of its people whatsoever. They can just move elsewhere.

Control of the airwaves, infiltration of the media, a full-out assault on the the zeitgeist that encourages and often finances all manner of pro-rich measures that benefit multinational corporations over ordinary citizens.

Most people live in a shamocracy where the semblance of control exists while the real players live in a meretricocracy where they pay for the lawmakers that best suit their purposes

KAKISTOCRACY----What the greeks called government by a states worst or least-qualified men.

We might qualify: worst or least-qualified OLD, WHITE men.

we live in a technocracy

A denialocracy on issues like global climate disruption & even the need to fix our infrastructure. Too many politicians (& too much of the public) care more about their perceived short-term interest than about dealing w/more important issues that we'll face further down the line.

Hmm...maybe it's a short-term-ocracy.

Given the few people that vote, that try to be informed by listening/watching/reading the news -- i.e. non-opinioned news -- and the prevalence of Entertainment news, I would say: a Celebrity-ocracy.

If more people followed what is happening in society, in politics and how our elected officials behave, like they do they Celebs, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

Anyone who thinks the world is "fair" is an ignorant moron

Wow. David, the previous caller, is suffering from a serious just-world fallacy.

Plutocracy with some superficial vestiges of a Democracy

A Hypocracy.

Slow news day - o - cracy?

I think the people of the United States of America live in a capocracy.... where capital (money), rather than people rule. There are other democracies in the world where people rather than money have more impact, but they are 'social' democracies, for example, Germany, France, Great Britain, Australia.

Oligarchr-ocacy ie oligarchy; definition: a governing system in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also : a group exercising such control

Plutocracy is also descriptive and accurate

We live in a monetocracy, without question. As long as politicians can receive donations (from anyone, corporations aren't the only problem), there will always be pressure on politicians to raise more money, and then that money will buy influence... and we all know the rest. :/

It's a mixed system: A democracy/plutocracy supervising a capitalist/socialist empire/federation.

What were once Democracies are now just 'Mockracies'.

What kind of "ocracy"? IDI-ocracy. If Herman Cain were President...it would be a sequel to that movie...live imitating art imitating life.

Considering the caliber of our elected officials, the public discourse, the tastes of our culture, and the fact that all you can do is sit back and laugh with cynicism and sarcasm about everything...

Farce-ocracy? Satir-ocracy?