Yes, but only one honorable man of power/influence in the entire town, that's not good.But you miss the point, where one man says "Then I'm goin' alone" , where one man goes to the rescue in spite of the others, and saves the people from the fire. Also, afterward, he puts them up in his own house.
I guess
"Yes we can
Create a country better than
The one we have made of this land"
is optimistic but it was pretty hard-hitting social commentary.
As many of Harry Chapin's songs are, whether they're slamming emotionally distant fathers or small-town hypocrites.
I like Alice's Restaurant, that would be a fun movie.