>>> Our setup here in the free USA is beginning to look more and more like tyranny. Afraid to run for political office because of fear of unreasonable attacks on a family.
Have you never read a history book? Politics has always been a contact sport. Ask Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel.
But Jackson, Abe Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton etc etc etc didn’t run away to the profitable world of reality TV.
“Politics has always been a contact sport.”
Yup, in colonial times the colonists tarred and feathered, or even hung, people they disagreed with politically. King George would have them hung as well (different side). And Stalin had Beria torture and kill his dissenters.
Sometimes here SEIU mobs someone’s house.
Several of them.
Adams
Jefferson
Washington
Hamilton (This is most astonishing read about a founding father)
Founding Brothers
American Sphinx
1776
American Lion (Andrew Jackson.) Lived just down the road (literally) from the Hermitage. (Book was Boring - Too much about the Eaton affair). But cool he fired the entire cabinet.
Adams vs. Jefferson. (My next purchase) - A Brutal election. The crap that was slung.
Layfayette.