Do you know the history of your political party? Do you realize what is at the root of its various causes? Do you ever wonder how your party has changed over the years? I hate to break it to you, but all roads lead to gangs. Gangsta politics is will most likely be hard pill for most to swallow, not because it isn't true, but because it isn't very appealing. All those suits and ties every politician wears presents the semblance of morality. One would at least hope that a person with such fashion sense at least has a bit of human decency. Why a person would think this, I don't really know. Gangs are at the heart of every political decision made around the world. Granted, the gangs in question must be powerful, but there are powerful gangs in every nation and, through intimidation, it becomes quite easy to influence voting, as we are currently seeing with attempts at "recounts" and "redistricting" (nothing more than voter tampering, which gangs are often linked to). We all know the awful truth. We know that police stations are often comprised with deep ties to various gangs, most recently we have seen the deep connections the police department has to white nationalists gangs, but that is by no means the only one that has infected the police system. We know also that politicians are notorious for pandering to the police unions. This makes for an unholy alliance. Sure, not every politician is a gangster, but every politician is in business with them. You have to be to do business in this nation. We know the illegal dealings of corporations. We know that they have links to organized crime. Yet we pretend that we have no knowledge of these dealings. I provide for you in this episode a brief history of just some of the obvious connections between politics and mafia style tactics. I detail the rich history of the high jacking of resources by violent criminals and this includes humans since everyone who becomes a criminal is another job lost within the system. Once you control resources you essentially control the ballot box; you can make it really difficult for people to succeed in such a volatile market when you pull the strings of the body politic. Illegal substances create a black market; the black market is often vastly more profitable than the legal market. People notice that they benefit more from illegal behavior; you cannot tame this urge with appeals to morality. Morality can simply be bought and paid for. No one is actually willing to sacrifice house and home to be the better person. There are no better people. There are living people and there are dead people. Most people choose life, but not the kind that the holy books preach. We are not heroes, nor do we control our own fates. We are victims of circumstances that we did not orchestrates. When hurled into such chaos, crime is bound to occur. How the hell could it not? Some of the laws currently on the books were enforced in an age where people thought they got sick because they did not pray enough. There are some who still believe such things, and so still believe in such laws. But the law is based in belief, a kind of ethnic religiosity that can also be found in the thug lifestyle. So what came first? The gangster or the politician? Well, actually, it was the politician who reigned supreme for hundreds of years, but the politicians grew greedy. They began to conquer unabashedly, denying their own people basic sustenance. And so the people revolted, taking what the pleased. Under this system of chaotic "order", criminals flourished and empires fell, calling into question the need for anything other than these kind of warrior tribes which would later go on to be known as gang. Everywhere from China to Italy to the U.S.A. has a history of gang violence. This is no coincidence. It is the nature of the human to fight for their identity. Identity becomes politicized and gangs capitalize, motivating ethnic and religious organization, leading to tyranny. Divide and Conquer