It's good that I wrote the piece yesterday about how I came to be a Democratic voter. A few follow-on notes.

I have also become a Democratic contributor. I have not only given to Presidential campaigns, but also to local campaigns for candidates that I thought were either inspiring, or in seats that were currently occupied by people who I find intolerable. And not just in the areas I live. I've given to candidates all over the country as well as in California and New York State.

There was another even more important reason I switched from Republican-voter to Democrat-voter. We were fighting two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our soldiers were dying. And we were basically destroying a whole country, Iraq, killing many hundreds of thousands of people, and turning more into refugees. Bad things were happening, and now with the benefit of hindsight, we were creating a vacuum for even worse things to happen. Our war created ISIS, something few political leaders in the US have been willing to discuss.

Anyway, while all this was happening, life went on as usual in the US. You couldn't tell we were at war! You could travel all over the world, and unless you went to Iraq you'd never know the US was at war. Now that's not sound. When we're fighting a war overseas, esp one that we started (Iraq) we should feel the war at home. Our family members should be fighting and dying. We should deal with rationing, and a lot of us should be involved in the war effort. Instead, the Repubs just put the wars on the credit card. Tax cuts too. All our bubbles continued to inflate, the economy was over-extended in a very crazy way leading to the crash of 2008.

People in the US still don't feel responsible for what happened in Iraq, we're so selfish all we think about are what little we had to pay, but it was done in our name, by people we elected.

The US was wrong. The whole thing was based on something unsustainable. We elected a competent Democrat who, despite the compromises he made, did dig us out of that hole.