You're right, but the laws create the opportunity. a prohibition creates a black market and cartels or gangs form in order to meet the demand of the market.
That's reducing judgement down to a binary option which doesn't quite capture the breadth of actions. No president has only good policies. No president has only bad policies. All deserve some form of criticism and praise. Some more than others, in either direction. But reducing all this down to an election is ridiculous. They represent us. The system isn't vote them in and let them do whatever they want during those 4 years and then decide if that was good or not. We still need to operate in real time.
Voting is only the part of the judgement that intersects with voters' direct choice. 99% of things are the public discourse of opinions-- judgements-- that go into influencing people when they cast their vote.
There is a reason why virtually 100% of Congress are lawyers. (Not sure where to look up the stats on that, though.)
Edit: I was wrong. It's "only" ~50% of Congress, assuming the numbers are roughly the same since 2016. source: https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/6/30/12068490/too-many-la... That's still a huge number, compared to the % of general population who are lawyers. In the US there are 1.4M lawyers; if the pop is 350M then they are 0.4% of the population - and a much smaller fraction of the adult working population (roughly .02%).
I was with you til the last sentence. The adult working population is about half of the total population, so approx 0.8% are lawyers, not 0.2%, and certainly not 0.02%.
