I don't get Louie's fixation with calling everybody a rat or informant?
It's because of his hatred for the life. Louie is just another Moe. He truly believes that anyone who has gotten far in that life is a reprehensible human being. He can believe that all he wants, but his hatred has obviously corrupted him. If he applied logic and reason to his thoughts, he wouldn't be saying what he's saying. Carmine Persico may have been a hoodlum, but he was also a father, a husband and a friend to thousands of people. He did a lot of good for many people. The government would never admit this. Journalists won't write about it because it's not sexy to talk about a person's good deeds. To them, only sensationalism gets clicks. What they fail to realize is that people are on to their pathetic game. The people want the truth!
For anybody to have such hatred as you stated, IMO he must have been personally assaulted or abused in some manner to hold such a blinding grudge. For instance, I may not like a guy, or a given subject, or a 'thing,' but I'm not crazed about it like he is about Italian organized crime.
It seems 'extremely' personal to him. Thats why I say he must have been adversely affected by them in some way that he sees red every time he even thinks of wiseguys or the mob.
Am I right here or what? Does what I'm saying make sense to you?
The unreasonable level of uneven thinking he has (and Moe for that matter as well), makes me think they hold personal 'grudges' against all things mafia. For Gods sake, even cops and feebees don't feel as passionate about the subject as he does.
