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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (347124)8/16/2007 6:34:15 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576785
 
Ideologues usually buy into 90% of their conservative/liberal positions.

To the extent that is true all of it means is you have a lot more ideologues that are either conservative or liberal, then are ideologues of some other strain. It doesn't mean that the other strains are less ideological.

And you have a lot more ideologues of those flavors because those are the most common strains of political thought. Its not that those two make you prone to be an ideologue, you just have less people who like some other flavor than those two.

If a person is willing to pick and choose between the two, or support some position in between, I think you call that person a pragmatist.

If a person picks 1 form column A and one from column B because of his blind unyielding ideological principles then he is an ideologue. If he picks all from A or B for pragmatic reasons he probably should be called a pragmatist.

"Conservative" to the extent that it means one thing, is a collection of ideas. Liberal is another collection. Someone could have an entirely different collection because they are compromising between the two, or because they have their own ideology which isn't the same as either "conservative" or "liberal".
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