Ideological arguments blur reality

Ideology is a bad word-for good reasons. Ideological thinking is inferior thinking. It is narrow-minded and blind to anything that veers off the ideological path. We rarely choose ideologies for their logical and factual merits. Even when we do, the choice itself limits us to continuing that train of thought. We are bound up in something greater than the intellectual debate, being cast up and pushed forward by the waves of history. It still makes sense, but that “sense” is removed from pragmatic