A new president doesn’t of itself turn the ship around; it starts the process but in no way gets the whole job done. One big shift needed now isn’t just in DC but in us: to really change the country, we get involved in our local politics. City council mtgs, local news, all of it.

So true. It's so much easier to make a mess than to clean it up well and in a way that makes it hard to make that same mess again.