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Another good question is why is almost every American politician (and all of the democrats) a lawyer?

Your primary job as a politician is to make and revise laws. Lawyer strikes me as a pretty good background for doing that.

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And here I thought the primary job of a politician was to get re-elected.

That's like saying the primary job of a surgeon is to prop up the medical narcotics industry by stabbing people with knives without actually killing them. Maybe in a way it's kind of true, but if enough people accept it, they stop caring about whether surgery does more harm than good.

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