totally. I have been political active since I was a teen, I've worked on campaigns, I've worked with and in city government etc. It's mind-blowing to me how people are totally ignorant of the good they can do... because they just want to sit around and day-dream about the world magically getting better and being angry at other people who don't agree with their dreams. Like going and volunteering at a polling place... is too 'lowbrow' for them but a simple thing they could do to actively make their life and the world around them better.

The world really isn't getting worse, it's just that people selectively ignore good news and exaggerate bad news, and completely lack comparative context, or totally reject it. They WANT to sit around and get-off on being doomers. The world and societies are complex, they don't follow the neat little highly simplified narratives people want it to and they throw tantrums that it doesn't, rather than try and realize how limited their understanding of it is. The people who rant and rave typically are ignorant of the most basic facts and structures of what they are ranting about.