Ideologues - The Biggest Danger to a Society

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O----kay. I'm trying to figure out whether the notion that ideologues are dangerous is..like the notion that fundamentalism is dangerous...shorthand for something else, something more elaborate and specific. It's been accurately pointed out that the only time fundamentalism is dangerous..is when the fundamentals of the religion are dangerous. Wouldn't the same be true of ideologues, and ideologies?

What's dangerous to society..for example, about an ardent Green Ideologue, or Green Ideology? What would the danger to society in a person elevating sustainability to quasi-religious status be?

I agree with the OP that ideologes are dangerous. Let's take your example of a green party ideologue. Now we can't really know the truth of this, but I'll use an example of a green ideologue in power and a green pragmatists.

So the green pragmatist goes into power and impliments a series of economic and environment reforms. Let's say they end up doing unintented economic harm, kill off an industry or some such. The pragmatist, because he's self examining will recognize it, and go and adjust the reform while keeping the goals of the reform the same.

Put the ideologue in the same situation, and if the same collapse happens, because of lack of self examination, will blame outside forces, blame the opposition party, the past president etc etc. Anything but his own ideas. Hence why ideologues are always dangerous.

Unless you think that somehow the greens have it nailed exactly on 100% of issues, you should see the problem with that.

If you DO think the greens have it 100% right...well then you are an ideologue. It's a narrow view point that leaves no room for improvement, amoungst it's many other problems.