Corruption and Lawyers.
Not sure who wrote this, but it’s a very enlightening
perspective. Sent to me by a friend but no author.
**As an attorney, I hesitated to forward this as it can be an
indictment against my profession. But I believe there is much
truth to the article below. Very thought provoking. Lawyers are
adversarial and are trained to try to win at all costs. It may
work in litigation but does not work well when governing our nation.
Trying to win at any costs creates the polarization and hatred that
now fills our country and leaves no room for common sense or legit-
imate debate.
Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law
school, although Gore did not graduate. Joe Biden (no surprise)
was at the bottom of his class. Every Democrat vice presidential
nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.
Barack Obama was a lawyer. Michelle Obama was a lawyer. Hillary
Clinton was a lawyer. Bill Clinton was a lawyer. John Edwards is
a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer. Look at leaders of the
Democrat Party in Congress: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is
a lawyer. Former Senator Harry Reid was a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Trump was a
businessman. Presidents Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen. Vice
President Cheney was a businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5
star General. The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Ging-
rich was a history professor. Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick
Armey was an economist. Ex-House Minority Leader John Boehner was
a plastics manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president
who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and
who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president,
running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party
is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the
targets of lawyers. This is very interesting. I had never thought
about it this way before.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and
scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who
heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like
Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who pro-
vide goods and service that people want, as the enemies of America.
And so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the pro-
cession of official enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and
Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals,
manufacturers, fastfood restaurant chains, large retail businesses,
bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through
the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully repre-
senting their clients, which, in this case should be the American
people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win
lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and
lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the
narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to
govern a great nation.
When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as
clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of
the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans
become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all
litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens
of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws,
from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws. We are contorted by judicial
decisions. We are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in
all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws
and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast, and
unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president
is whom, he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers
and the law in America is too big. When House Democrats sue
America to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are
planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has
become crushing.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought
to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American
society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not
come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished
by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more
lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of
the world's lawyers! Tort or legal reform legislation has been
introduced in congress several times in the last several years to
limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot
coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you
and to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits.
This legislation has been blocked from even being voted on by the
Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contribu-
tions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Demo-
crat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical
and product costs being so high.**
I finally got past the Covid and Hurricane Milton so maybe
I will do better.
Don't forget to pray that God will intercede in the election
and save our nation.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 