You'll get better as you get more informed and active. a lack of intelligence didn't stop Dubya from becoming President in 2000 There's a lot of freaking law to learn if you've not really been interested and informed most of your teenage years. If I had more free time I'd be more than willing to help give you a rundown on some things. Although I may have a massive bias toward liberal-libertarianism. Simply put, that means my views are a somewhat of a fusion of Ron Paul's (he's a conservative-libertarian) and Barack Obama's (he's a liberal-authoritarian of sorts), in that I support individual freedoms but also like using the government as a tool to help those in economic distress. I will tell you this: most Democratic politicians at the national level are liberal-authoritarians, and most Republican politicians at the national level are conservative-authoritarians.
I'm usually getting that much, if not more.