"dumbocracy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1869 September 30, “Democratic Hot Shot from a Republican Standpoint”, in John T. Raper, editor, The Vinton Record, volume 20, number 6 (whole 995), McArthur, Oh., →ISSN, page [2], column 3:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1980, Whole Earth Catalog (publisher), The Coevolution Quarterly - Issues 28-29, page 25:",
          "text": "Dumbocracy in action. Is fatal --- get thee behind me, God!",
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          "text": "It is more like a \"dumbocracy\" that the Minister of Energy might recognise.",
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          "ref": "1994, John Reed Club, New York Branch (contributor), Partisan Review - Volume 61, page 713:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Michael Faust, The Case For Meritocracy:",
          "text": "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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          "text": "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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