There is a difference of temperament between those whose focus is on resisting the changes which they see as undesirable, and those whose focus is on on achieving the changes they see as desirable.

I think that as we get older most of us tend to do more of the former.

However unless we think the world is perfect, or totally screwed up, we're always going to be a mixture of teh two.

But I still think it's strange to observe a political system where pretty well all the heat seems to be about issues which just aren't about politics at all, they are about cultural preferances. Lilliputian The Bigenders versus the Littlenders of Lilliput, really... Religious wars.