Student council, yearbook club and debate team, place over low heat and stir. Add social rejects and random trouble makers to taste. You know, the ones who have jobs in the schools front office so the principle and dean can keep an eye on them.

As teenagers they learned that tucking their asses up under a teacher or administrator's feet would keep them safe. Safe from the other kids, safe from the consequences of thier own stupidity and safe from thier own utter lack of judgment.

As 'adults' who find themselves in positions of authority, they are always completely lost and waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Never, I repeat, never will they admit to being frauds in way over thier heads.

Of course, when we the constituents try to tell them what they should do, it all goes in one ear and out the other. You know, because that shits like too hard and some shit. But when a foreign oligarch or tyrant tells them what to do, it's usually an easy out they can't wait to take along with the cash.