Word!

Have you heard the phrase “there’s a word for that?” The next year plus promises to be an interesting time in our good old U.S. of A. Today’s posting is intended to help US with a necessary vocabulary. Entries 1 through 5 are from Wordnik.

1. oligarch

noun

1. A member of a small governing faction.
2. A member of an oligarchy; one of a few holding political power.
3. A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

 2. autocrat

noun

1. A ruler having unlimited power; a despot.
2. A person with unlimited power or authority.
3. An absolute prince or sovereign; a ruler or monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions: as, “the autocrat of all the Russias,” a title assumed by the emperor of Russia.

3. fraud

noun

1. A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.
2. A piece of trickery; a trick.
3. One that defrauds; a cheat.

4. democracy

noun

1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.

5. choice

noun

1. The act of choosing; selection.
2. The power, right, or liberty to choose; option.
3. An alternative.

6. background 

1.  Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America,
2. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

One Vote

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

            ^{After reading a letter from his mother, Harry T. Burn cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution}

My parents are from countries
where mangoes grow wild and bold
and eagles cry the sky in arcs and dips.
America loved this bird too and made

it clutch olives and arrows. Some think
if an eaglet falls, the mother will swoop
down to catch it. It won’t. The eagle must fly
on its own accord by first testing the air-slide

over each pinfeather. Even in a letter of wind,
a mother holds so much power. After the pipping
of the egg, after the branching—an eagle is on
its own. Must make the choice on its own

no matter what its been taught. Some forget
that pound for pound, eagle feathers are stronger
than an airplane wing. And even one letter, one
vote can make the difference for every bright thing.

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