This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way.
The Lawyers’ Party,
By Bruce Walker
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.
Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.
Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.
Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:
Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different.
President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic 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 Ronald Reagan in 1976.
The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Lawyers produce nothing. In essence, they are scavengers, feeding off those who actually produce something. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who study and teach history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide the goods and services that people want and need, as the enemies of America.
Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?....Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food 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. Producing nothing, they are parasites, surviving only by sucking blood from those who actually work. They then feather their beds by taxing those who produce and giving to those who do not, thereby winning votes. 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, lawyers have a place in the market. But putting them in public office 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 lawyers; 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 in order 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 (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 also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!
You should post that as a separate thread
I’ve always thought what you are saying to be the truth. That the reason we have a lot of problems with our political system is that it is a silver-spoon profession from the ground up, usually only consisting of lawyers and/or the mega-wealthy who usually have little or no concept of what it’s like to have to struggle like the average Joe if they came from an affluent background. When they pass laws, they pass it for the common folk and exempt themselves from it and don’t play by the same rules. For them, they can sidestep most problems with money and lots of it. They know how to game the system and they have plenty of fellow cronies to assist them in keeping their seat of power.
Time to put some “real”, normal, “walked a mile in your shoes” type of people into office. I’m seeing a lot of candidates that aren’t attorneys starting to run. I think that will annoy the status quo because they fear that they will be unseated by a “mere mortal”. I hope they are and I think they will be. People are tired of their games.
We passed and ratified the “Original 13th Amendment” to the US Constitution 200 years ago, precisely because of this type of behavior. The Amendment basically REMOVED all Rights to vote and Citizenship for LAWYERS. Which means that NO LAWYER could ever hold any office of Trust.
Very interesting post. If what makes a nation great ends up being its ruin, America is now facing that. We were founded as a nation of laws and find lawyers our masters.