A type of self-government where a society is mysteriously incapable of producing intelligent leaders. A form of dysfunctionalocracy.
After several presidential and congressional election cycles, the government remained divided along party lines. Rather than leading the nation into prosperous times, they descended into a state of stupocracy.
Any business organization run exclusively by people who not only live in fear of making a meaningful decision, but seem to be favorably compensated on the basis of their unwillingness or inability to make a decision. Typically, the degree to which this situation adversely affects customers and suppliers is demonstrably linked to a complete lack of understanding of the organization's business model and/or customers.
"Not only is this product launch likely to result in a complete failure and loss of a great deal of money, but the stupocracy responsible for it will somehow spin it to make it seem like a success."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)