As an ideology, the Compassionistas–can I can them that?–insist that being nice is the summum bonum of human life, and to the point, of political life. Their very human need for cruelty and exclusion is met by dehumanizing and hating conservatives, without whom, they suppose, there would be no hate, and no violence, and peace would reign.
But this is stupid. To even call it well meaning is a disingenuous cop-out. They do it because it is EASY. Their world is one where they never have to make a hard choice.
In Miami, they will presumably blame guns–i.e. conservatives, aka, the few sane people remaining–“Islamophobia” (you know, the people afraid of spiders, the Arachnophobes, do have a point, too, that spiders can and do bite), and that “je ne c’est quoi” of what might be termed “vacuous reaching”: “who knows why people are violent? I am violent, you are violent.”
In all this, there is ZERO determination to understand, to really GET, why this tragedy happened, and work in a conscious, disciplined, and consistent way to make sure it never happens again, or at least happens less, and that fewer people are affected.
If you are not an honest student of policy and history, you are not a good person, if you are in the fields where those are essential to getting things right. You are an ideologue.
I was wondering too if we might define “ideologue” as “a belief system which does not realize it is a belief system”. Maybe.