We must not imagine that political changes of themselves will ever bring about the goodness, charity, or transformation that the gospel offers the world.
-- Richard Rohr
A more helpful (and healthy) orientation to change can come from an often uncommon understanding of what is commonly known as the Beatitudes. 'Blessed are the...' meaning not nearly as much a reward as a description of what pathway to flourishing and a genuine state of aliveness really is.
For example, regarding:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
A better understanding would be:
"Flourishing and fully alive are those who have created genuine inner space — who have released the accumulated constructions of the conditioned self and made room for something else to enter."
If you're curious and open, continue...here.
...quite a contrast to much of what currently seems to motivate political change.