Da Blogfather says it all for me

Glenn Reynolds encapsulates the source of my political activism:

It's not that I'm that big a fan in the abstract, really, it's just that the viciousness and stupidity revealed in its enemies tends to make me view it more favorably than I otherwise would.

I could apply that to any number of issues lately. Living in the SF Bay Area, with its rabid and very prevalent politics, tends to get to me.