Sadly, President Obama has demonstrated that he cannot or will not bring about the changes he promised during his election campaign. So be it. We must do it ourselves.
If we put the same energy, devotion and sheer hard work that we put into getting him elected into organizing with our neighbors into small community groups to make the changes we need, we could simultaneously help each other survive the economic crisis and work to create policies and programs that work for average Americans. This is a question of our basic survival, so we might call the groups Community Survival Councils.
Millions of folks are now unemployed, millions have lost or are losing their homes, millions don't have money for food to feed their families or even enough money to pay for internet access. We all need help and we can get it by joining together.
As long as folks are isolated from each other, nothing whatever will change.
For real change, we need many, many people -- but not as many as the 67 million who voted for President Obama. (We could start with as few as 3 to 9 people.)