Leadership qualification

The USA is in a perpetual election cycle. People are always running or considering a run or being considered for a run. I have come up with my key non-qualifier for candidates. It is "scold." I do not want to be scolded by people in leadership positions. I need to set up a chart and chalk it up each time a candidate or so-called leader scolds citizens, voters and other groups.

Rodale's The Synonym Finder can help me out here. These are suggested synonyms for the verb "scold."

• chide, reprimand, dress down, trim, upbraid, bawl out, chew out, tongue-lash; 
• reprove, reproach, rebuke, rate, reprehend, castigate; 
• chastise, rap knuckles, slap wrists; 
• give a piece of one's mind, tell a thing or two, tell off, tell where to get off; 
• take to task, call down, let have it, give the business, give hell, lay out in lavender, rake over the coals, skin alive, pin ears back, blast or blast off, let have it with both barrels, jump on or all over, jump down [someone's] throat, throw in [someone's] face;
• call to account, bring to book, call on the carpet, read the riot act, lay down the law, lecture, talk to, admonish; 
• come down hard on, light into, rip into, tear into, lace into, sail into, raise the roof; 
• condemn, censure, reprobate, criticize, get down on, remonstrate, animadvert on;
• denounce, denunciate, objurgate, berate, vituperate; 
• blame, charge, accuse, impute, indict; 
• inveigh against, rail against, decry, declaim, run down, fulminate against; 
• lash, vilify, curse, revile, vilipend. 

There's additional fun at "scolding" but I doubt if I will be reading or hearing philippic, stricture, contumely or traducement all that often.

However it is said or reported, I do not take kindly to being scolded by politicians. I should set up a Scold-o-Meter and lay it out in lavender.