A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?
I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.