"Ideological purity" refers to the idea of strictly adhering to a specific set of beliefs or principles without any compromise or deviation. It means following and promoting ideas or values without any tolerance for different perspectives or alternative views.
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This reduces the pool of talent for party leaders and increases the likelihood that the selection process will promote
ideological purity over actual talent.
I'm not sure whether FPA is now being driven by investment discipline, demands
for ideological purity or a rising interest in gathering assets.
The issues here are perhaps most apparent in the Churches of Christ, where emphasis on restoration of New Testament Christianity has placed
ideological purity at a premium.
Like their Republican counterparts, Cardinale said, a Sanders - inspired super-progressive movement would
value ideological purity over electability and would threaten the Democratic Party's «big tent» tradition of accommodating a wide range of viewpoints.
He certainly didn't beat his anti-establishment opponents
with ideological purity, a history of supporting the GOP and conservative causes, or a stronger ground game.
Immigrants in danger, Bill de Blasio balancing competing demands, Republicans
balancing ideological purity while in danger of losing the State Senate, and more.
All of this, however, would require a political culture in which compromise was prized
above ideological purity and careful preparation above nationalist histrionics.
In his new study of coalition Government, Clegg's Coup, Jasper Gerard argues that the Lib Dems need to exchange what he says one minister calls «fluffy bunny voters», the idealists who
prefer ideological purity to power, with realists (wily foxes?)
Yet expecting ironclad honesty or
ideological purity from politicians isn't merely naïve — it's a formula for bad governance.
Labour must be loving the fact that our obsession with Europe and
ideological purity means that some Tories do not want us to deploy one of our most effective weapons.
Instead, the cultists demand 100 per
cent ideological purity, and blacklist, sue or call for the imprisonment and execution of anyone who fails the test.
The issue then becomes one of deciding whether the value of
ideological purity surrounding the inviolability of animal rights, or of the biological interests of the individual whale, forecloses the pursuit of a policy with the potential to reduce these harms in the aggregate but not end them entirely.
He further stated, «some parts of the IPCC process resembled a Soviet - style trial, in which the facts are predetermined, and
ideological purity trumps technical and scientific rigor.»
Islamic State is a group of extremist fundamentalist Muslims, many of whom are learned Islamic scholars, who are apparently willing to sacrifice everything in the name
of ideological purity.
The Spectator's political editor, James Forsyth, tells Asthana that Cameron is driven not by a desire
for ideological purity but instead «principled pragmatism».
Deploring a system that has «chosen to put partisan and
ideological purity over the well - being of the people,» Schultz asked fellow corporate executives to join him in a boycott.
She is more simpatico with Trudeau's Liberals than any provincial or federal Conservative party is, but the federal Liberals have governed more by public - mood windsock than
ideological purity.
Because profits were subordinated to
ideological purity, those political institutions folded under the pressures of technological culture.
A person who retreats from public life because it is too inconvenient or unpleasant or fails to accord with his nice ideals acts as a citizen of the city of man, seeking his own good — peace of mind,
ideological purity — at the expense of the common good.
I don't have any particular goal to become vegan, because I'm terrible at
ideological purity, and I like cheese.
Back an inspiring loser and you get to sit in the wilderness and reflect on
your ideological purity; back a ho - hum winner, and you at least get to stay in the game.
Can I offer you Varoufakisification as the choice to move in the direction of
ideological purity and practical failure?
``... an active campaign against my leadership by a local Momentum organiser, being called a neo-Nazi by some Corbyn t - shirt wearing person outside the Labour Party Conference, and events at a national level targeting Labour Councillors and Labour Councils that do not conform to the particular form of
ideological purity that seems to have taken a grip of the party...»
Yes, she has shown all
the ideological purity of the McCain campaign.
In this case, it seems to have created a bit of validation by wish fulfilment: Darwin's views on sexual selection, Prum says, have been «laundered, re-tailored and cleaned - up for
ideological purity».
A stunning work of war reportage nestled within a creaky study of
ideological purity, Cartel Land reveals the extent of the chaos and corruption infecting Mexico's drug war.
Self - appointed enforcers of
ideological purity are not free to bully, shame, or otherwise push fellow activists to conform, in language, thought, or deed, to said doctrine or dogma.
Ideological purity has the advantage that adherents can tell each other the same comforting lies and project the same fears onto the same enemies — forming a basis for social cohesion.
On the one side we have science and
ideological purity, and on the other, the right wing.
Such intolerance of disagreement is something for which conservatives and Tea Party activists are often criticized, and is the type of
ideological purity that has made our national politics a mess.
When you enforce
the ideological purity tests that Mann does, and wind up casting Lennart Bengtsson, John Christy, Mike Hulme et al overboard, eventually you find yourself in an echo chamber with only a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and a man who thinks the temperature is going to increase by 25 per cent in the next 30 years for company.