Politicians pass laws not because we need them, but to justify their existence as politicians. Rather than serve the people and guard the people’s interests they instead guard their personal interests of power and re-election. Judges have gone from interpreting law to making it, also to justify their existence. We need term limits and we need to make sure our representatives represent the community not just in geography but in life experience. This is what you get when you have a professional class that consists of 95% lawyers. We need to change it and get lawyers out of politics.
I could not agree more! We need "regular" people, people who know how life and the world really works.
I don't blame people for not running for public office; too many get themselves and their families dragged through the mud. Still, we need people who have run businesses, people who know how to manage their own personal affairs, people who have paid taxes, people who have seen how the things they do and the choices they make have consequences.
Amen.