[icebraining]

Ideology is the lenses through which we decide what the problems are and how we can evaluate the solutions. It's meaningless to say that a solution is better than another; it just has different tradeoffs. Ideology is what gives weights to those tradeoffs and makes the choice meaningful.

People who say we should just ignore ideology and "choose what works" are just passing off - consciously or not - their own ideology as the 'natural' state, which doesn't really exist.