Bring On The Babushki
In the Soviet Union most people lived in apartment buildings. On every floor of every apartment building there was an old woman, a ‘grandmother’ [in Russian – Babushka] who sat in the hallway and kept track of all comings and goings. The ‘babushki’ received extra benefits from the KGB to supplement their meager pensions.
Given Zero’s latest ‘national security’ absurdity, I can see them appearing in the halls of all Federal buildings in short order.
Asking every government employee to be an informant [betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, deep throat, double-crosser, fink, grasser, narc, rat, shopper, sneak, snitch, squealer, stool pigeon, tattletale, tipster, turncoat, weasel] on all of their coworkers to stop whistle-blowers, should pretty much destroy ‘unit cohesion and morale’ as the military is wont to say.
The majority of ‘leaks’ come from the White House and Congress, not Federal civil service workers. Maybe if Zero tried to introduce a few of the policies that people actually want and need, and stopped pushing the Republican policies that the majority of people hate, he would have smoother sailing.
Update: Charlie Pierce is going with Orwell’s Big Brother, while others are talking about the Stasi. [Aside: Charlie, tell Ralph Lauren to buy that young woman a good dinner. She looks about ready for an ad on famine instead of denim.]
