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Big Stick ideology, Big Stick diplomacy, or Big Stick policy refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick".
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The real gotchas should come on people who stick with their ideology no matter how badly it performs in practice.
Such is the predicament of the left in Israel: Stick to your ideology and you wind up alienating most of the public; abandon it, and you risk losing your base.
On the basis of forty years of teaching history at the University of California, Riverside, I've come to the conclusion that people should stick to the ideology or religion they started with, no matter how much it has disappointed and failed.
"Even though it is against your principles or philosophy," he said he believed that officeholders should be doing "what the people want you to do rather than getting stuck in your ideology".
Indeed, Allen predicts an international re-examination of the most fundamental kind: How free should free markets be? "We're stuck in this ideology of the past 20 years, which is that markets work and you should leave things to the markets," Allen says, arguing that the current crisis shows there is such a thing as too much market freedom.
While this mentality has stuck around, another ideology around breakfast has emerged in recent years.
So far, the Republicans have stuck to their ideology in the face of dire need in the country.
To them, if the government was going to screw the people of Michigan out of the democratic process, the least they could do was stick to true Republican ideology.
Sax calls schools like T.Y.W.L.S. "anachronisms" — because, he says, they're stuck in 1970s-era femideologyeology and they don't base their pedagogy on the latest research.
People often stick with their political ideologies and are reluctant to change.
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