Boardwalk Empire

What is the difference between the 1920s and the 2010s?

Very little. Except we can get as much beer and liquor NOW than we could get then LEGALLY.

There was plenty of the stuff around, but it had to be procured through SPEAK EASIES many of which were run by gangsters. Now DC is run by gangsters and the majority of bar owners are OMOTSs who have the ability to drag this unemployment crisis out of the quagmire.

Nucky Thompson is the typical gangster/politician with control of his district on all levels.

That hasn't changed.

People are easily led, easily brainwashed over an idea and will vote accordingly.

That hasn't changed.

What has changed is the literacy of the population. But as the literacy of population has increased so too have the DIVERSIONS and DISTRACTIONS hoisted upon them, through TV, SPORT, INTERNET, RADIO and MOVIES.

This is the critiical difference in the 2010s!

Instead of a small GROUP OF MEN controlling the stock market we have a SMALL GROUP of banks and financial institutions controlling it.

Instead of just having come out of war, we are in TWO wars.