I don't know if this is true and this gets to the reductive nature of how people interpret political arguments. We've become so divided, the 'status quo' crowd and the 'not status quo' crowd don't even talk to each other. If you're conservative, you're mostly seeing people argue about what the status quo was, and if you're progressive, you're probably seeing people argue about what the status quo should be.

Everyone says politics is about values, but it's more than that. Politics is values plus an implementation. Sometimes I see the worst takes or disdain from people who's values I fundamentally agree with, but we disagree on the implementation.