Chapter 22: Corrupt.
The car ride was smooth, without any troubles, without any worries in Joseph’s mind that what he might have done was going to cause a lot of trouble... that it’s going to explode a bomb in the heart of the criminal underworld. It was more like that he exactly understood what he had done, what his actions would do, but why would he care for it?
There is nobody in the world who loves him, or that chains him, so dying is just a quick way out from all the struggles... he really didn’t give a single fuck about his life.
"It changed a lot, right?" Pablo asked as they arrived back at the city and saw Joseph glued to the window.
"Yeah... everything changed so much." He said all around were skyscrapers, big apartment buildings, but his attention was also caught by the cars, the people outside, their clothes, dresses, their smiles on their faces.
It truly changed. Back when he was out, it was more like the wild west. The roads were all fucked, there weren’t big skyscrapers, only one or two that were owned by some criminals and the people were scared to go outside, even to go to work. Back then, the streets, the whole city, was ruled by the criminals, by his father and the alliance.
Every single business, every single bar, restaurant, shop, was paying money to the alliance just to let them keep operating, so much money that half of them went bankrupt in the first two months. Not just that, but the cops, everybody was in their hands. The fucking city was their playground. Without any consequences, they could do whatever they just wanted, and the government said nothing because they had bigger problems... a war in a country so far that some people didn’t even knew that country exist... but the government felt the need to join in and spend billions of taxpayer money, to let thousands of soldiers die for nothing.
But maybe that was the best decision because it just caused more outrage, caused more protest, and more cracks in the government, in the leadership of it and the final blow that broke the whole thing was caused by Joseph or more like the DAG because with the death of his parents and the alliance everything changed and just got out of hand. The chaos raged, everybody snitched on everybody, files and documents leaked, everything was out there for the public, and it just fueled them more. That’s when the democratic party was formed, and with more fighting, more mass protests, eventually the system fell.
Of course it wasn’t just because of Joseph or the DAG, but because the people truly had enough, millions of them. It was more like a revolution,they clashed with police, with national guards, even with soldiers and criminals. The general public clashed with all of them, and in the end, they won.
"That agent, Olivia, said to me that the whole system changed, that this country is democratic and functions well... is it true?" Joseph asked as he looked at Pablo, and he just smiled.