Timeline for Could organised crime gangs have ever usurped government in the United States of America?
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| Aug 7, 2022 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 3, 2022 at 12:58 | comment | added | user535733 | It did happen. Repeatedly. See the post-Civil War reconstruction era, and particularly how it ended. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 12:31 | comment | added | Kepotx | any sufficiently advanced organised crime gang is indistinguishable from government | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 12:16 | answer | added | Tyler Mc | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 31, 2022 at 23:07 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 31, 2022 at 20:02 | answer | added | Bryan McClure | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 21:53 | comment | added | stix | This is a spicy question; depending on your definition of organized crime you could say it's happening right now... ;) | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 17:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 28, 2022 at 16:24 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | Two private corporations have a near-stranglehold on who will hold positions in most federal, state, and local offices. Those few not backed by one of those two corporations will generally align themselves with one or the other shortly after attaining office. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 15:40 | answer | added | Sxubach | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 15:22 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | It's long enough since I read Cyril Kornbluth's The Syndic that I have forgotten the backstory, but perhaps someone else remembers it better. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 17:07 | comment | added | Morris The Cat | Arguably this has already happened... | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | AlexP | You may want to look up political machine, especially Tammany Hall (New York) and Cook County Democratic Party (Chicago). | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 18:09 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 18:05 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | As I remember, something like this is the premise of the serial Buck Rogers (1939) where criminals have taken control of Earth. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 15:15 | comment | added | user49466 | Sorry to break it to you, but most governments are organized crime, with a hefty public works component and excellent PR. Just look at the hand of state actors in the drug trade, or the open two-tiered justice system in both the industrialized and "developing" world. This isn't just a political spiel, I'm being serious when I say it wouldn't look all that different from the status quo. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 13:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 6, 2019 at 12:49 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 6:04 | answer | added | Armand_Milieu | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 5:56 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | Unfortunately, my question is not, "How could a person unsuited to govern be elected US President?" | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 5:27 | history | edited | Monty Wild♦ |
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| Jan 6, 2019 at 5:21 | history | asked | Monty Wild♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |