Reply #55: Anyone who tells you they "don't have an ideology", and they "just want to get stuff done"

[kenny blankenship]

is most certainly ideologically driven, even more so than average folk. They just have the ideology of the dominant class, (currently the financial sector elite) which they will, when pressed to give a name to their set of beliefs, cloak under insipid euphemisms like "the American Way". Because their ideology is already ensconced in power, it prefers low visibility. It doesn't need to transform the status quo since it is the status quo, and to become conspicuous in its claims and self-celebration would be to invite questioning. Therefore it prefers to set all important social and economic matters out-of-bounds to questions and masquerades its savage inequalities as the morally neutral outcomes of human nature -to chafe against which would be immoral-, or as the one and only way that things can get done, or the most efficient way of allocating resources, or as "our national tradition", and so on. But it is all about conserving and concentrating power for a narrow elite.