When a politician's main talking points are some variation of:
-"I'm a true _______" (conservative/progressive)
or
-"I'm committed to _______ principles/ideas"
then they aren't looking for solutions to fit your problems; they're trying to make your problems fit their sortions.
-"I'm a true _______" (conservative/progressive)
or
-"I'm committed to _______ principles/ideas"
then they aren't looking for solutions to fit your problems; they're trying to make your problems fit their sortions.
And that can either be because they're an ideologue or because they believe the people who vote for them are ideologies and they're essentially "virtue signaling" to that crowd.
Either way, such people aren't about problem solving. They're about furthering their ideology.
Either way, such people aren't about problem solving. They're about furthering their ideology.
Because if they were about problem solving, they wouldn't have to invoke ideology or promise to uphold it; they'd just craft the best solutions based on the problem, and hey, maybe one ideology fits the problem! Maybe it's a combination. Or no ideology. Who cares? Solve problems!
And if their only argument against a solution is that it violates their ideology, but not why the solution itself is bad and not to offer a different, better solution that actually addresses the problem, well, again, that person doesn't care to solve your problems.
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