THIS ARGUMENT IS A COP OUT. It's off topic. The thread's OP does not ask this question. They clearly ask who would be more beneficial to the mob today.
It's not partisan politics that have dominated this thread.
It's spin.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
