"Moderate" is what you get called when you're uncompromising about doing the right thing, rather than being uncompromising about your ideological orthodoxy.
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This is equivocation. There are forms of motivations, intentions and goals—even strong ones—which are non-ideological on a plain understanding of the term. Ideologies arise when deltas between these things become habitual and institutional.
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Ideology is whatever my dissenters believe. What I believe is plain truth. "When my contradictors' ideas aren't an incoherent mess I can easily disprove, I call them for the ideologists they are: for they are so dogmatic that they fail to change their mind after I insult them."
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"you can't be neutral on a moving train" -- Howard Zinn (who is a radical, sure, but doesn't make that statement less true)
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