Why is the senate mostly lawyers?

The Senate is mostly lawyers. Okay, I'm guessing this is not a coincidence. Why?

You can argue that it should be this way because law school trains your mind to be capable of considering very complex arguments and making intelligent decisions. Furthermore, the types of people who choose to go to law school are often already used to that way of thinking.

However, the way candidates get elected doesn't seem to have much to do with the lawyerish logic they will need when they're in office. I would guess that the bulk of a candidate's campaign is devoted to TV and radio ads that generally just use talking points, which are more of a marketing gimmick than well-crafted arguments. Really, anyone can make commercials like the kind we see for campaigns, and marketing people are probably better at it than lawyers anyway. And I even doubt many politicians even are closely involved in their own campaign ads, they hire other people to do that stuff.

I would think that journalists are the most likely candidates since everyone already knows who they are. But no, the senate is mostly lawyers. Someone please explain this to me.

 

lawyers speak the language of law. and since that's what congress does in general, it makes sense to me. now do i think lawyers and politicians (most of whom are lawyers) are the people who SHOULD make the laws? no. but the system is that way right now, because law is so complex most of the time, that you have to be pretty much a lawyer to even understand it. designed to keep poor, uneducated people down. of course.

 

I hate that they are lawyers. They should be respectable land-owners and slave-holders.

 

Like the majority of our founding fathers with their wives at home on the plantations eyeballing the mandingos

Hotwater

 

why are most senators millionaires.

 

Arent senate appointments for sale?...probably only the lawyers can afford them

 

kill whitey

 

thank you for your uhhh.....responses?

 

Because we voted for them.

 

Because most lawyers are charlatans, and charlatans make good politicians.

 

Because they work for the biggest corporations to screw over the people.

 

I was being rhetorical

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I dont know how America work , but British politics is full of barristers ( Courtroom lawyers).

I went to Law School , and can say , that pretty much guarantees politics has a large number of tits to choose from in that area.
Law School does give you skills for politics-digesting info , ordering an argument ( trying to win it at all costs) etc.

Lawyers often have tunnel vision.Give em a concept and they work away very hard at it , without bringing in their own sense of logic or values.Sometimes clever , often brainwashable , IMO

I think this is helpful to the people who are * really* pulling the strings in so called democracy in Britain , the US and elsewhere.

As I think Rockerfeller said " I'd never lower myself to the level of running for president".

 

Much sense in that , Pressed.
Also , places like Oxford Law School , Harvard Law etc , have certain students approached very early on.Its clear that if they tow certain" party lines" , they can count on support , to the next levels..