The husband-and-wife team had by now consigned Albania to ideological hibernation, building 900 concrete pill boxes to foil an imagined foreign invasion.
Iran had many of these paradises and the ancient Persians not only cherished them, but also used the concept as part of their ideological empire building.
Setting aside ideological reasons, building a shelter is a hassle.
As Mayer writes, the billionaire opposition, with strong roots in the fossil fuel industry, converted "thirty years worth of ideological institution building into a machine that would resemble, and rival, those of the two major political parties".
Most of their money and attention has gone to ideological institution-building, and this form of spending has not been a traditional target of progressive regulatory zeal.
That's why, I think, we see very little principled criticism of ideological institution-building in general, but many breathless attempts to characterise Koch-style free-market, limited-government libertarianism as ideological cover for plutocracy or oligarchy or whatever.
The peer-reviewed evidence has yet to account for the medium-to-long-term political effects of money spent building ideological institutions and the "market" demand for ideological talent they create.
For organizing by national, ideological mailing-list building favors a politics of sharp statements about issues, ideology and principle over the expected give and take of interests on which traditional political support is woven -- whether the issue is saving the whales or protecting the unborn.
Care should be taken before building ideological mountains out of verbal molehills.
Corporate executives often spend on politics not to improve their companies' profitability but to serve their own objectives — from supporting a personal ideological agenda to building a future career in politics.
