Does Anyone Besides Me Think That The Mafia Went Legit And Became The Repug Party?....

[global1]

I really don't know if you can call it 'legit' - but you know what I mean.

The other day while reading about the Crisp Crispy GWB scandal I got to thinking - what if the Mafia in a move to get out of the Elliot Ness days business made it their goal to take over a political party in an attempt to make money and gain power in a way that shielded them from the law.

I see another Godfather movie in the making here.

I guess with all the award shows in Hollywood lately - I been influenced to think like this.

I already posted earlier that the Koch Brothers remind me of a James Bond/Ian Flemming villain.

Just rambling now - too much wine with dinner.

That's it - those are my thoughts for the night.

[oldandhappy]

1. great thought!!

[hobbit709]

2. The Mafia are smarter than the average repuke.

[Katashi_itto]

3. I'm on Oxcodone for recent hip replacement surgery and I think you hit it right.

[libodem]

16. Heal fast

Hope you are good as new soon.

[Katashi_itto]

29. Thanks!

[libodem]

30. Welcome

[DURHAM D]

4. You bet.

The public treasury is where the real money is.

[kimbutgar]

5. GOP = gangsters of politics

[silverweb]

22. Bingo!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Nailed it.

[bravenak]

6. Nucky Thompson is a republican.

And the boardwalk empire version of Al Capone is a republican. Also Tony Soprano seemed to lean right.

[Egalitarian Thug]

19. Cultural and literary license. Look up which party the robber barons favored, and which party has

supported them over the history of this nation.

One of the most salient details left out of popular culture entertainment of those times, is that Nucky & company were the newcomers, the underdogs fighting to take a piece of the action already owned by the really big boys in the Democratic Party.

[Purveyor]

7. Ha. I'm leaning more to the whole US gov't went mafia but then again that doesn't make sense.

The mafia knew how to 'run things'...

Stop trashing the mob in such a fashion as labeling them repukes.

[onethatcares]

31. oh, they are running things alright

in the front door and out the back.

the two parties are like separate fiefdoms ruled by the head boss. We just don't

actually see the head boss though.

[pscot]

8. Corporations are the new mob

And they've taken over the GOP. We used to call it Fascism. The NRA is training up their brownshirt army. They have plans for us.

[Cleita]

14. Most cogent post on this thread.

[Triana]

32. +1000 - corprats are the Mafia

They control the GOP and most Dems as well. If you wanted to look at criminal, psychopathic elements of our society and economy today - corporations would be at or near #1 on the list.

[DonCoquixote]

9. Hell no

The Mafia are much more honorable. If somebody is a screw up, they get killed, as opposed to W. If half the GOP were in a mafia family, they would have been whacked in their 20's.

[immoderate]

10. The Mafia WISHES it could be the Republican Party.

They are small time crooks compared to the US corporate system and it's political allies.

--imm

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. "small patadas"

[applegrove]

11. The GOP went out and copied all the tools

of the psychopath so they could scam americans into voting for things that would create a permanent plutocracy in the USA.

[freshwest]

26. +1. Actually, the mob was bad, but they did have some rules in the past... Or so I've read. n/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

12. No, I think Republicans who once went legit became the Mafia.

[Cleita]

13. Something did and considering the Irish gangsters of the nineteenth

century went into politics and became legit sort of, Kennedy's and all. You aren't wrong. I think the Koch brothers are a different group of gangsters made legitimate but thugs anyway.

[Kablooie]

15. It's more like thr Spanish Inquisition went legit.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Michael tried to go legit...

but couldn't.

[Egalitarian Thug]

18. No, they were much smarter than the parasites that own the parties.

I'm pretty consistently amazed at the apparently infinite capacity of white America to subscribe to the concept of a small number of influential people having the capacity to build and run a criminal empire, but are consistently, and adamantly determined to not see that the game was over long before the Italians were even born.

The parasite class predates the Cosa Nostra by centuries. They were here when the first Pilgrim murdered his host in order to steal his food and belongings. They are every family name you know or have ever heard of coming from the eastern seaboard and more than a few you've likely never heard.

The American parasite class shows those Italians to be the unranked amateurs that they are. Their "Great Organization", "this thing of ours" is nothing but a feeble shadow, parroting the true wealth and power that the real rulers wield.

[global1]

20. I Used The Term "Mafia" In My OP - I Should Have Said "Organized Crime".....

That is what I meant - organized crime - as that is a more generic term and isn't associated with any particular nationality - like maybe the term 'mafia' is.

My premise is that 'organized crime' wanted to insinuate themselves into what most people would think are respectable businesses - and politics - (though many of us don't respect most politicians) - is considered more respectable than getting involved with drugs, liquor, gambling, etc - those things that we associate with gangsters of the past to and as portrayed in such movies like the Godfather, Scarface, etc.

Think about it - if they went into politics - they get to make the laws. They get to exempt themselves from the laws. They get to break the laws. They get to change the laws when something else comes along that they can get their hands into. They get to be above the law.

I point to the Repug Party because they seem like thugs to me and kind of fit the above description.

As many have pointed out in this NJ GWB Crisp Crispy scandal - it has the look and Soprano like feel.

I guess that's what motivated me to put this post up in the first place.

[Egalitarian Thug]

24. No problem at all. I got my subject line sompletely backward, Saturday night in Las Vegas,

what else can I say? Just waiting for the call to tell me which place it's happening tonight.

You're not wrong, and the scions of today's Wynn's, Pritzikers, Adelsons. Clintons, Cheneys, Emanuels, Blankfeins, and Dimons will constitute the next generation of parasites that will continue to feed off the American worker.

It's not going to end until we end it.

[Coyotl]

21. Does Anyone Besides Me Think That The Mafia Was The Repug Party All Along?

No need to go legit if you run the show already.

[JDPriestly]

23. I don't want to believe that, but I have sometimes thought it might be a possibility.

Seriously. How else do you explain the similarity in their ideas and strategies?

[adieu]

25. Well Vito Corleone

wanted Michael to be a Senator or something. So yeah, they had designs on getting into the politics business.

[Skittles]

28. don't start thinking Democrats are squeaky clean

if anything it's the plutocracy of America that will be showcased by New Jersey