Something else they were not...
Uneducated back woods hicks.
Ignorant country pumpkins.
Nor were they criminals, anarchists, communists, panderers, or pedophiles, liars, or career politicians. Unlike some folks holding office today.
It's not 4th of July, but think for a minute, about the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence. They wrote and signed their own death warrants. And then sent it to the King of England! I don't think for one minute, ANYBODY in governmental office, today, at any level, have either the convictions, nor fortitude, to do the same.
God Bless America.