I'm not kidding when I say you need to learn to read law.
You don't have to know all the fancy latin stuff, but you have to be able to open a proposed/introduced bills and not only understand but comprehend it.
When you read a bill, you need to be able to figure out a few things really fast:
What does the bill say it's trying to accomplish?
In best AND worst case scenarios, what will the bill actually accomplish if signed into law?
Who benefits from these scenarios?
Who is liable to be hurt/oppressed/forgotten if this bill is signed into law?
I promise, bills are not intimidating. Some times they're lengthy and wordy, sometimes they're short. But they are not too hard for you to understand. If you can read this post, you can read a bill. Even if you need to annotate it, or search up phrases, you can read it.
And it's imperative that you do. Because right now law makers are drafting and pushing bills that serve them and not their constituents. You need to be able to say "Hey this doesn't do what you claim it does!" You need to be able to look at your neighbor and say "This bill will hurt you/me/other neighbors/oppressed classes/etc etc!".
You need to be able to read these bills yourself and not just rely on what the lawmakers or really anyone else is telling you about it.