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.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?