But the threat of terrorism is real, regardless of whether a given ideology finds it convenient.
Whatever the heartlessness or brainlessness of any given ideology, the conventional wisdom that people get more conservative as they age is wrong, according to sociological research.
Are the lives ended any less tragic, the injuries suffered any less horrific, because of the given ideology of a mass shooter?
This is a great opportunity to challenge the candidates to knock off the personal jabs, give ideology a rest and start talking about concrete plans to get our economy growing again.
A further distinctive characteristic of communist parties was the importance given to ideology.
Jared Bernstein, a former chief economic adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said, "Romney taps into a fairly strong conservative sentiment on housing, which is 'liquidate, liquidate, liquidate.' The idea that you would intervene in housing finance is anathema to them, given their ideology".
"Given this ideology, the temptation or danger is real to say that you don't have any need of God, that the spirit doesn't exist," said Msgr. Fiorenzo Facchini, an Italian priest and paleoanthropologist. "And the church should keep guard against this and denounce it".
In fact, there is little chance of a new Cold War given that ideology is not a core conflict between China and the United States.
Given his ideology and politics, there is serious risk of a downward spiral of austerity and recession, as the country suffered from 1998-2001.
