That is because any society that ever existed will have those enforcing convention and those pushing against it and that's the difference between conservatives and liberals. What we need to do, is recognize there are two sides to the coin and it isn't winner takes all. More like rock, paper, scissors.

Yin and yang, than God Almighty.

When the left adopts its own absolutist positions, it only plays to the strengths of the right.

The bull is power. The matador is art.