It is the foremost expression of the Iranian Revolution's essence: The rejection of foreign ideology and tutelage after decades of perceived humiliation by the West.
The victory of Barack Obama in the 2008 election constituted an explicit and overwhelming rejection of an ideology that had engulfed the Republican Party since Reagan won the White House in 1980.
Johannes Waidbacher, the mayor of Braunau am Inn, said he fully supported the commission's finding, noting that it had further recommended that the site be used by a social or municipal institution, to further emphasize the rejection of Nazi ideology.
Last week's upset result in the Greenwich parliamentary by-election, where an extreme left Labor candidate lost a seat that the party had held since World War II, underscored both the power of the left to select candidates as well as the public's rejection of the ideology championed by such candidates.
It can be hard to pick up on an ideologue at first, but it will be obvious once irritated by your rejection of this ideology.
"Normally a 'change' election is about a rejection of a certain ideology or the ultimate triumph of a countering ideology, like Reagan in '80 and Gingrich in '94," said John Weaver, a Republican strategist who worked for Mr. McCain until last year.
But the current controversy over these terms is the sign of the rejection of the entire ideology of autonomy, consensus, right, and duty.
He proclaimed his regime one of "positive neutralism," which he defined as a return to African values and rejection of any imported ideology, including that of the Soviet Union.
(An exception is his affirmation that he "believes in the laws of arithmetic," a none-too-subtle rejection of the Bush ideology that championed deficit-spawning tax cuts).
