We need to start actively excluding (voting against lawyers) running for public office.
Lawyers have this false belief that making more laws to correct social behavior will actually change how humans behave. The worse example of this was shown last night on PBS when the progressive movement passed Prohibition. The greatest thing about the series, so far, was the numerous speeches about how Prohibition would forever change the American landscape for the good. I found it scary how close those speeches sounded to the current "Green" "Sustainable" energy speeches.
If people, either collectively or as subclasses, aren't obeying a particular law what sane person believes that making more laws or harsher laws will be more effective? Lawyers and their adult versions, judges and politicians do.
See the last 2.5 years in D.C. for an example.
The only way to change behavior is to change the underlying misconceptions and beliefs. Laws will never do this. They are only reflexive to the situation.
The way to change behavior is through education and the instilling of morals and values, not the destruction of those which is what the legal profession has done.
The prolifigation of laws is what has brought us to the point where we are today. In the dark ages and before the takevoer of our country by that profession we used to do much better observing the 10 basic rules that have survived time.
We get an owners manual when we buy a car. We also have an owners manual for life as well. You may disagree but the Bible does lay out basic rules of how to live your life and how to treat others - read Golden Rule.
It is when we become overly moral and selfrightous and leaglistic that we fall apart.