And most people wouldn't care, they don't want to run, they want to settle down and start a life of normality
Which is precisely why you don't listen to the people. The people do not know anything about military strategy, and survival is a realm in which military strategy is paramount. If you establish a home base you can be destroyed easily. This is one of the more ridiculous parts of the later episodes.
So take an active role in pushing your species to extinction?
Sure, in the same way that killing someone in self-defense is 'taking an active role in pushing your species to extinction'. If someone is more concerned with their own well-being than with the survival of their species, they are not worth the time and effort to save them.
What is nice about the show is it explores the different angle. Take the hard line military approach like Admiral Cain and you are killing off your species to fight a war you've already lost.
And that's precisely the issue: in order to make the peace-and-flowers hippie angle seem the 'right' one, they have to be dishonest about the actual right one. It isn't a choice of 'throw yourself against the machines until dead' or 'start a democracy'. The proper choice in this situation is martial law. Yet we've been brainwashed into having a kneejerk negative reaction to martial law. It is always painted in a fascist light, as if it were something imposed on a whim for the betterment of some evil behind-the-scenes puppetmaster. Martial law is military rule in times of great risk and uncertainty.
What I like is there is no good, no bad - it preaches one thing, then turns around and reflects on the morality of such choices, all of which have pros and cons.
Yes, well, a lot of people
despise this mealy-mouth nonsense. It gets nobody anywhere. And there's already enough of that junk on TV, in books, in movies. That's the problem with this insidious liberal nonsense - it's like cancer eating away at our society.
As I stated above, the reason it is particularly ridiculous in this instance is because the situation is black and white. There is no gray. It's man versus ruthless killing machines. There is no room for tweed-wearing, beard-stroking, pipe-smoking post-graduate students sitting around and mulling the 'humanity' of the killing machines.