If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a dog (honesty test for congressfolk):
I propose an integrity test for our 535 folks (435 US House of Representatives, 100 US Senators)
Simple questions with responses limited to a binary answer, “Yes”, or “No”, that the 535 must each answer, and if they refuse to take the test, their answers “defaults” to “Yes”, with no attempts to editorialize or politicize allowed in their answers.
To make it interesting, they will each be hooked up to a lie detector tester, as well as a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining (fMRI) machine (which graphically displays brain activity, in living color). The reason for the lie detector test should be obvious (and only highly trained CIA/FBI/KGB/etc. or other agency’s folks can “fool” these things). As for the fMRI machine, if you’re telling the truth, only a smallish area of the cortex and Wernicke’s (speech area) and Broca’s region (plans the process of speech) should light up. Dishonesty requires “creativity” and the brain works harder than when one is being honest, and this effort is reflected by increased brain activity in other brain regions in the scan.
Also, in addition to being fitted with the aforementioned technology during the binary only responses, let’s make it even more interesting. Let’s also hook them up to an electric shock generator, not something dangerous, something that only generates the same static shock that you get when walking across carpet during the wintertime and touching a doorknob/metal. If they start to editorialize or politicize, and not respond with a simple “yes” or “no”, they’re given a mild shock. If they do it again, a slightly more energetic shock. Nothing dangerous, just “unpleasant”.
Now, the questions are incredibly simple:
1) On Jan 6th, 2021, while in the Washington DC Capital building, at any time were you afraid during what was happening inside or outside the Capital building?
2) Were you in fear for your life?
3) Did you call family/friends in concern or fear?
Refusal to submit to this test is an admission that you were afraid.
As we’re a democracy:
If more than 1/2 of the 535 admit to being afraid (answering “yes” to any of the 3 above questions), it was an insurrection, otherwise, it WAS, just a “pleasant party”, and was “excellent”.