That, of course, is a subject for debate. Not everyone likes the idea of building a coliseum or buying an airport before we take care of our traffic and water problems, but not everyone is opposed to those ideas, either. If you're so sure everyone agrees with your plans to squash the coliseum and ignore Kickapoo Downtown Airpark, then you should also be sure that you could win a City Council seat with a landslide of votes. It's not apathy - it takes work to write a letter to the editor, and some of you send several each month. You're obviously interested in city government, because you follow it so closely.
Laziness is out, too.
In addition to writing letters, you're always complaining about taxes. Field some opposition candidates, people who will take the council and school board in a direction you like - or quit griping. That's also my personal deadline. I got better things to do than listen to people who are whining simply for the sake of whining. Especially when that whining sounds a lot like the bleating of a sheep.