The system is designed to reward the most ruthless. They aren't drawn to politics in spite of being corrupt. They're drawn because of it. Where else can you get legal immunity, limitless power, and a taxpayer-funded salary?
Yes… This is the Marxist\Jihadi Zohran Mamdani.
“We came here to remake the state in the image of our people.”
Power in China did not begin in Beijing’s halls. It began in Shanghai’s underworld, where the boundaries between crime and politics vanished. The Red Syndicate investigates how that fusion of loyalty, money, and fear still shapes the world today.
https://csevaluation.substack.com/p/the-red-syndicate-inside-the-architecture