good fed/bad fed
Perhaps you’re familiar with the old interrogation strategy called ‘good cop/bad cop’. Basically it works like this: when a pair of police officers (they always work in pairs) find a victim criminal but no evidence, one of the cops plays the ‘bad’ role in order to scare or beat him into confessing. If after an extended period that doesn’t work, the ‘bad’ cop takes a break and the cop playing the ‘good’ role sidles up to the prisoner individual and says, “hey, you look like a decent fellow…tell you what, if you run now I’ll tell my partner you got away, by the time he returns you’ll be safe.” When the sucker relieved citizen thanks him and starts running, the ‘good’ cop counts three seconds, removes his pistol and shoots him in the back ‘trying to escape’.
I was reminded of this strategy when a young woman rang my doorbell this morning looking to “register democrats to vote.” It’s so sad that so many young impressionable folks think the Democrats are the good cops and will save them from the bad cops. When in fact both political parties in this country are paid by the same bosses.