Irritable husbands, family and child-care obligations, the inability to raise money or mobilize supporters, and direct rebuffs from male politicians have discouraged women from entering politics. Meanwhile older males have continued to teach younger ones the ropes and give them the resources to enter the political arena. Finally, many women find the male struggle for political power so distasteful that they leave politics to men, thus ensuring their continued dominance. Community government, the one political arena where women have the most interest and the most influence, is increasingly under the control of male-dominated national governments. Crime is a side effect of patriarchy.
Most hardcore criminals are victims of poverty and child abuse.
But many are men simply carrying patriarchal violence to its logical extreme, wantonly resorting to theft, blackmail, extortion, battery, rape and murder. Recently, this tendency has escalated because of the patriarchal war on drugs. Male elites distrust psychoactive, consciousness expanding drugs because individuals using them tend to question patriarchal lifestyles. Authorities prefer to punish rather than heal those who abuse drugs. The crackdown on drugs has driven up prices, turned unemployed ghetto youths into criminals, and has wound up creating more powerful and harmful drugs than those originally outlawed.