I think a huge factor is in how people define politics in relation to themselves. A lot of people in America have adopted the tendency to view politics as an essential identity, instead of as a transient verb. Perhaps this is due in part to the underlying philosophical nature of political ideology like you said, but there’s an inherent difference between political ideology and engaging in politics.
I’m suspicious and skeptical of any political ideology, because it’s really just a front to push for that person’s philosophical interests and agenda. I don’t think it’s impossible to scale philosophical principles to be adaptable to larger social or cultural structures, and by that extension a political position, but I find that approaching politics from a method of scientific and theoretical analysis helps to buffer the cognitive dissonance that arises out of essentializing politics as an identity.
Adaptability to context will always be valuable and indispensable, but to position oneself as too ambivalent, a position of centrism can have the unintended consequence of coming across as being indecisive or apathetic to some people. It takes discipline to challenge your convictions with multivariate perspectives while also maintaining intellectual consistency and humility, but that also seems to be lacking in many.
I think a huge factor is in how people define politics in relation to themselves. A lot of people in America have adopted the tendency to view politics as an essential identity, instead of as a transient verb. Perhaps this is due in part to the underlying philosophical nature of political ideology like you said, but there’s an inherent difference between political ideology and engaging in politics.
I’m suspicious and skeptical of any political ideology, because it’s really just a front to push for that person’s philosophical interests and agenda. I don’t think it’s impossible to scale philosophical principles to be adaptable to larger social or cultural structures, and by that extension a political position, but I find that approaching politics from a method of scientific and theoretical analysis helps to buffer the cognitive dissonance that arises out of essentializing politics as an identity.
Adaptability to context will always be valuable and indispensable, but to position oneself as too ambivalent, a position of centrism can have the unintended consequence of coming across as being indecisive or apathetic to some people. It takes discipline to challenge your convictions with multivariate perspectives while also maintaining intellectual consistency and humility, but that also seems to be lacking in many.