Ricki Leahy
Dr. Hedtke
Political Ideologies
March 16, 2022
1. Ideology is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic
or political theory and policy. Ideology has three functions: To inculcate robotic mental
algorithms in normal people; to get people to demand their own subjugation; and to ensure
power for a select few to dominate and control society. Ideology is not a political system.
It is a device to get normal people to be willing to fight, sometimes to the death, to defend
what takes over their thinking, removing the intervention of the mind. This is done by the
loading of ideological words combining to form a mental algorithm that automatically
processes social, political and moral decisions. However, ‘I think, hence I am’ still applies.
Thus, tolerance of any disagreement is nil. Ideologues have an on/off switch. You are either
with them or an enemy. Lacking any shade, nuance or subtlety, they are semi-robotic in
their blind obedience.The third aspect involves the few ideologues in charge. Some will be
deluded; they are working for the supposed objectives of ideology which promises a
Heaven on Earth that never comes. But all will really be systematically and callously using
ideology to con people for the sole purpose of ensuring absolute control and power over
everyone else. The aim of all ideologies, once you see through the manipulation, is power
for its own sake. Fascism, Communism, Socialism, virtually every political ‘ism’, bar
perhaps humanism, is domination and power. They do differ in the speed and urgency.
Where far left and right are happy to use force and cruelty to get power. The so called
‘moderate centre’ tends to be happier with long term manipulation and deceit. But all just
want power and moral supremacy for a few. This is little more than White Supremacy writ
large across all humanity using a different ideology to the same end where ‘Whites’ are
just a small group of power obsessed manipulators. Democracy is not an ideology because
it does not promise Heaven on Earth but exists to find out the best to do in the circumstances
and knows things change. It respects disagreement, compromise and values cooperation
above all else. Ideologues loathe disagreement, think compromise and cooperation
irrelevant. For this reason, ideologues dislike or loathe democracy. It stands aloof to the
gaggle of ideological and authoritarian systems in the Left/Right spectrum. So we have
three functions of political ideology: manipulation, to engineer self-defeating demands for
mental and physical subjugation, and to satisfy the lust for power over others in a select
few. It is a nasty, dangerous scene. Political socialization is the learning process by which
people develop an understanding of their political identities, opinions, and behavior.
