Have you ever said, "When life throws you lemons, make Lemonade?"
Now that life has done that, and people are trying to make lemonade, they are ridiculed and beaten down. Why has it become a bad thing to hope for the best?
No. I just deal with things usually in the poorest way possible, until the terrible situation goes away or becomes part of daily life and I forget how it was before. Sometimes it will continue to anger me at various times and not anger me at other times.
I'm not one to use platitudes like that, but I do think that the time and energy some people use to bemoan something they don't like could be used instead to better the situation.