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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: George Coyne who wrote (140291)4/23/2001 4:13:08 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Well, it has long been ambiguous. When it was coined, it meant someone with an set of prejudices that buttressed the existing social order (as in "the Bourgeois Ideology"). Then it came to mean someone with systematic political beliefs, whether one approved of them or not. The division set in when contrasting empirical, pragmatic action with "ideology", or a set of preconceived notions. On the other hand, one could use still use "ideology" positively to mean a coherent set of principles, from wherever derived, to use in evaluating specific programs and actions in politics. Somehow, although "ideology" retained the more positive meaning, "ideologue" almost completely came to denote someone with a closed mind impervious to common sense and evidence. I suspect that it was a matter of sound. "Ideologue" has a gagging quality to the sound.....
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