I think it was Paul Goodman, or it may have been Noam Chomsky, who said he was a neolithic conservative.

Having an attitude of "if it works don't mend it" is quite consistent with recognising that it doesn't work, and badly need mending.

What sends me up the wall is the assumpotion - and it's just as prevalent among rightwingwers as leftwingers, if anytjing miore so in my experience - and in the middle, that novelty is a thing to be fostered, for it's own sake. If something's been around for a bit, it's time to thrown it out and start anew.