An Ode to 'crats ...

I'd rather be a technocrat ... than a bureaucrat,
I'd rather be a democrat ... than an aristocrat,
I'd rather be a meritocrat ... than a theocrat,

I'd rather be a monocrat ... than a plutocrat,

I'd rather be in a thalassocrat ... than in a gerontocrat,

I'd rather neither be in an ochlocrat ... nor in a mobocrat.