"There's a common ideological mind-set that I think we all share," Mr. Toner said.
Again, the G.O.P. is on the wrong side of an issue as it tries to push its ideological mind-set on the country.
This is the same short-term, ideological mind-set that has driven the Conservatives' approach to housing, and explains the last six years of failure: from home-ownership which is down by 200,000 to homelessness doubling.
Yet the highly ideological rightwing mind does not think in this way.
If Mr. Bloomberg has a specific ideological agenda in mind for his mayoralty, it is not apparent from his chosen inner circle.
By unveiling the different ideological, value-based mind sets of the studied individuals, teams and/or organisations, CLA emphasises the importance of understanding reality through different layers of knowing and observing things.
Using only one text or teaching only one view is consigning students to a never-never land of feel-good illusion, an intellectual ghetto of provincialism, or an ideological gulag of mind control, instead of exposing them to the raging firestorm of dissenting views that is the lifeblood of scholarship.
Part of it is ideological: in their minds, at least, terrorists in the West are often waging a worldwide battle for their faith, powered by ideas they pick up on the internet.
The ideological meeting of minds between Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg a liberal conservative working with a conservative liberal, in the happy phrase-making of Downing Street insiders—has been chilled by the realisation that the AV fight is a zero-sum game for the pair.
But this is not the story of an ideological meeting of minds that went wrong.
Yet in theatrical terms (never mind the ideological side), there is never even a contest.
