I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.