Oh, @mstafford, I'm glad I didn't offend you, I was afraid I had, and if I did in any way I apologize.

Us Americans are on edge, like lots of the planet at the moment, as I'm sure you know. :) I agree with, or at least respect, everything you've said. The military industrial complex is definitely real and is one of the nastiest things to have ever happened to our planet.

But, maybe what outsiders don't understand is that we have a morale problem of sorts over here, half (or more) of our population has literally lost their minds and it's getting tough to deal with.

We need something to rally patriots together because the psycho DNC & Co. have failed at their soft coup, and the next phase is an armed coup. I really believe that is their plan. They will not just give up, they've made that clear. We need solidarity now - we haven't needed it this much since the Revolution.

We don't want war, but we cannot allow a rogue faction to overthrow our duly elected President, regardless of how we personally feel about him. And they will resort to violence, they have before. I personally am anti-war!! And I'm not a conservative, although I sound like one at times, I'm very much a textbook classic liberal, just slightly right fiscally.

I hope this helps outsiders understand, over here we're not worried about a foreign war so much at the moment, as we are a civil war.

This is what I love about Steemit, civil conversation :)