Government may or may not be organized crime.
Pay your taxes and the police will "protect" you and your stuff.
It's a classic protection racket.
If you don't pay your protection money, the police will kidnap you and take your stuff.
This sounds like the very definition of "organized crime".
And it's not a new idea.
Are you familiar with the Three Penny Opera?
It's a re-tooling of a play written in 1728 called The Beggar's Opera and both productions re-cast their current-day government officials as street thugs.
The "hero" is a charming cut-throat who asks his victims very politely if he can rob them.
You've probably heard the Hero's theme from Three Penny Opera,
The idea seems to be that people don't mind being robbed quite so much if they're asked politely by a charming criminal.
General charisma (NOT intelligence or empathy) seems to be the primary asset of most modern elected officials.
GOVERNMENT = MOBSTER
They both rely on implicit and explicit threats of physical force in order to "justify" their "power".
How does "community-consensus" become "mobster-government"?
Here's a classic example in 5 minutes,
