A couple things-
This board is an outlet. In war you might be scared but it doesn't stop you from fighting.
People on this board are out here in these streets kicking ass and being successful. We are just venting about the day to day frustrations of our country's, and sometimes the world's, politics. Take me for example. My mom, like a lot of African Americans from her era, never owned a home. In a single generation we went from no home ownership to all of us owning our own home, with me owning a house where if you turn right out of my driveway and drive 1/8 a mile, turn left, drive another 1/8, and turn right, you will be looking at a 15k sq ft house. No one is folding up the tent.
That said, this is a board of educated people. When you learn what you did to this country's indigenous. When you learn why we actually fight wars or the puppet regimes we've put in place around the globe to serve our own interest. When you learn the steps this country has taken to keep a thumb on the head of its people. When you know how the country has legislated itself to protect the elite. When you have the means to travel and hear how people outside this country feel about us. When you work in places that are multinational and your colleague sits down and has a beer with you and lets loose about his world view. When you are old enough to see the same things that didn't work 40 years ago tried again and again. When you studied enough to know history and have to sit by and watch people "touch the stove".
When you know all that, you need a place to let off a little steam, and thank the lord for this place.