It's not a dichotomy. It's true that there are people who have an "if only people were nice" type of outlook on life, and that is indeed naive. The problem isn

It's not a dichotomy. It's true that there are people who have an "if only people were nice" type of outlook on life, and that is indeed naive. The problem isn't that individual people are nasty, it's that the system is set up in a way that favours negative outcomes for many. The only way to fix the system is politics, and a necessary condition for getting anything done in politics is for people to care. That said, I agree with you that less complaining and more actual plans would be great. (And especially if the people who complain would then start supporting plans, even if it means that others call them "bad" words like "commie"...)