the generalizations pg makes are too broad. > The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk. You

the generalizations pg makes are too broad. > The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk. You don't get to pick and choose. Your opinions about taxation can be predicted from your opinions about same-sex marriage. Now,if a person were a conservative christian, them being a conservative would drive their position on taxation, while being christian would drive their position on gay marriage, however that alone would not make them an idealogue. I think the idealogue is one who has come to his position, without considering the opposite position, thereby discounting it completely.