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According to Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota, the United States could use current technology to find the nation's most reprehensible people at a fraction of the five-billion-dollar price tag.
"Any search for the worst people in the country should logically begin one place: on Twitter," said Logsdon, who recommends scouring the social network for users who consistently show signs of narcissistic-personality disorder, poor impulse control, and other traits common to odious people.
Once a comprehensive list of those Twitter users is compiled, Logsdon said, it could be cross-referenced with a database containing the names of people who have presided over spectacular business failures, have been the target of multiple ethics probes, or are currently under indictment for a broad array of criminal offenses.
"After we crunch the numbers and find the twelve or so worst people in our database, we could then put them on television to demonstrate just how awful they are as people," said Logsdon, who noted that that part of the current system "works very well."
All in all, Logsdon believes that his method for finding the nation's worst people would cost practically nothing, leaving five billion dollars left over to help rebuild the nation's schools, roads, and other crumbling infrastructure.
The political scientist expects to encounter significant resistance to his proposal, however. "It's hard to imagine a new system finding worse people than our current one does," he admitted.
The problem here is that even if funny, it implies that these stooges, puppets/muppets, pawns, front men/women etc, are anything other than what they are, which is not national leaders of any kind. Pretenders at best, most of them are a bunch of wanna-bes who know the quickest way to get ahead is learn 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'.... that play/film captured the same sense of comedy as this article attempts to capture... but in the end, it really isn't funny, but we try to laugh lest we cry or 'rage at the machine'... when the machine isn't really to blame, it's is merely fulfilling its design function.... a design based for existence here in Purgatory... it's function is to help us 'wake up'... it's only a question of how many blows it takes... how many corrupt politicans/pundits/priests, popes and businessmen does it take to make us reach the point of exclaiming: "I'm As Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!"
Then the question becomes how to channel that anger into something useful, productive for yourself, if not others.
See the Choice, Make the Choice, Empower the Choice... and leave Purgatory behind... as per our own design function.