06-05-2018, 12:18 PM
Mob bosses subscribe to the same "code" that is exhibited in the current white house: that the ends justify any means. Old school mobsters clung to their so-called patriotism and false honor as symbols that they weren't such bad guys, and they bribed and bought whole neighborhoods so locals who knew no better would be at least sympathetic to them. People who never interacted with outlaws and mobsters except in movies might romanticize them but there is no such thing as an honorable gangster in real life. They're nasty pieces of work and generally it's best not to get in with them at all. My old man was in with every damn gangster and biker outfit in the midwest and western USA. The bikers were mean sons of bitches when you crossed them and were horrible human beings to anyone with tits or extra pigment but had a stricter sense of honor than mobsters. Truth.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.