I was torn between choosing capitalism or the essential nature of people. I think capitalism has created a system in which it's every difficult for regular people to do the right thing, because choices are taken away from them and corporations and the super-wealthy have so much control.
On the other hand, people do have the power of numbers, and they are not exercising their power, because instead of informing themselves they believe the most outrageous lies, and give in to prejudice and foolishness. There is so much ignorance and so many misconceptions that when people are outraged enough to act, they do the wrongest, most damaging thing possible (as in the Tea Party).