The truly deluded author has tripped over reality
Our founding fathers felt the same way about ideology, which John Adams described as “the science of idiots.” This is why George Washington did not believe in political parties. If you define yourself as a liberal and are serious about always being liberal, then you are certain to be wrong whenever the truth is conservative, and vice-versa. If you are chiefly concerned about the difference between right and left, you are likely to miss the differences between right and wrong.
Let us embrace therefore the ideology of non-ideology which, if it needs a label, we might call centrism.
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While Washington supposedly didn't like parties, they formed under his watch and he took sides. John Adams used the term ideology a bit differently than the author is using it.
If you define yourself as a centrist and are serious about always being centrist, then you are certain to be wrong whenever there is truth to be found. For a centrist is somebody who straddles a divide. This is not to say Dante is against centrists as a principle, but a centrist is still an ideologue. When they ran for Oval Office, both Clinton and GW Bush were centrists