And not that much accountability and all of them would be just as crooked.

Added: It's the politician part that becomes crooked. I have known dozens, if not hundreds of morally upright, honorable lawyers. Politicians, on the other hand, have a way of abandoning their principles quite easily and start caring about money and money for re-lections.

Boehner, Mccain, Reagan, both Bushes, Cheney, Tom Coburn, Rand Paul and his daddy before him, not lawyers.

Candidates Trump, Palin, Ben Carson: not lawyers. I don't think they would be better than any lawyer

Oh, according to the Washington Post, only 36.5% of the congresscritters are lawyers.

These are the majority of our elected officials? Think about that...

Any wonder why The Law, which we are indoctrinated into looking at solemnly and with awe as the cornerstone of our democratic society, has become nothing more than a smokescreen to protect these wealthy people in Congress, their donors and criminal business friends, while keeping the unwashed masses embroiled in an ever-churning and cascading mess of petty fines, late fees, court appearances, parking tickets and increased tolls, police harassment, hounding collection agencies and insurance premium hikes?

Every step of the way is polluted. The bills are literally, if not flat out written by the corporations and banks, then submitted to them for approval before going before Congress. They're now hundreds if not thousands of pages long, for the express purpose of hiding little loopholes here and there, knowing that nobody will actually read the whole thing, which will then be passed in the dead of night to ensure so.

This odious Fine Print Culture has seeped down into every facet of our culture, rendering our lives over to the quagmire of an over-litigious society in which for even the smallest, most innocuous purchase, such as even downloading a song online, one has to "agree" to sign the release form. Even entering a public space now has some annoying legalese plastered on the wall before you enter. Ugh. How did we get here?

All thanks to the lawyer culture that exploded in the 80's. "I Sue For You" was a license plate on Long Island I'll never forget seeing growing up. Dime a dozen, herds of fresh-out-of-law-school douchebags chasing ambulances and encouraging anyone who even slightly scratched their knee on someone's sidewalk to call them, because they're entitled to a Big Pay Day. This mentality stills runs through and ruins our country to this day. Get-Rich-Quick replaced E pluribus unum.

As my favorite lawyer, and perhaps one of the only honest ones, William Kustler said, "the law is a lie. It is there to protect rich people and their property from poor people." His whole career is a testament to one who sought to upturn the falsehood that the law is there to ensure that people have equal access to justice. We don't.

I told a friend one of many reasons I would like to see Jill Stein as President is that she is a musician and a doctor. How about that? She spent her life healing and caring for people, and also sings and plays music, one of the highest expressions of the human experience. Vaclav Havel became President of the Czech Republic, I said, and he was a playwright and author. I'd like to see a lot more people from the arts, science, writers, farmers, academics running our government. It would make a world of a difference, from improving interpersonal relationships to a lesser focus on status and materialism.

It's a non-brainer why we're stuck in this horrific dog-eat-dog world of unbridled capitalism. The better, more humane and compassionate folks are not attracted to the "game" as it is now, and/or aren't welcomed by the self-satisfied, arrogant money makers who do not want disruption from doing the bidding of their donors, which in turn pays off their summer homes, rental properties and vacations.