On one hand, there is the pessimistic view that welfare provision would converge to a new low-level social expenditure equilibrium, because of globalisation and increasing economic vulnerability, and capital outflows, irrespective of ideology (Strange 1996; Friedman 2000; Swank 2001).
"Opposing ideology makes strange bedfellows".
I saw in Zizek's Sublime Object of Ideology a strange but powerful materialist theology, something that was different from the Marxist Christian matrix put together by the underground group "Slant" formed by the likes of Terry Eagleton and MacIntyre in the late sixties.
Just this week, he accused the president of betraying "the national interest" by leaking national security secrets, and said in a CNBC interview that the president's ideology is "very strange and in some respects foreign to the American experience type of philosophy".
To outsiders who find it strange that Maoism, a failed ideology from the last century, should be alive and well in the Himalayas, human rights activist Padma Ratna Tuladhar puts it in perspective: 'In Nepal, we are still living in the sixteenth century.' In theory, they offer the people an alternative to the rigid Hindu caste system, no longer legal, but still a reality.
This strange mixture of cultures and ideologies, at what I'll call its early stages, plays out in funny ways.
His rigid ideology makes him a strange choice to be attorney general of the United States.
Fear of a strange enemy driven by an alien ideology, killing Americans abroad, threatening Americans at home.
"In a strange way the green aspect creates an ideology rather than a pragmatic business rationale".
To explain the strange calm by citing the end of ideology is the cliched option, but that seems far too easy.
