To the Editor:

I received the following comments from a good friend via email. I thought perhaps your readers would find this information worth reading. I think it helps to explain why Liberals are so aggressive. "

From a lawyer

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 cost creates the polarization and hatred that now fills our country and leaves no room for common sense or legitimate debate.

Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school although Gore did not graduate. Evey 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 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. Vic President Cheney was a businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5 str General. The leaders of the Republican Revolution” Newt Gingrich 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 the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing 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.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush or who heal the sick like Rand Paul, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of América. Hillary described Trump voters as a basket of deplorables. And so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and Biden rail? Oil Companies, Hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurants chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our 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 government, such as the MAGA Republicans. 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, 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.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! When you see that 97% of the political contributions for American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high.

Dave Johnson,
Fillmore, Ca.