The Unsustainability of Ideology in Politics

Ideology fails for two reasons: First, because it is based on falsehood about human nature and hence can't help but fail. As those falsehoods become more evident, the gap grows between what the ideology claims and the lived experience of human beings under its domain, until the regime loses legitimacy. More often than not, one precedes the other. Even as liberalism has penetrated nearly every nation on earth, its vision of human liberty seems increasingly to be a taunt, rather than promise. Or from celebrating the utopic freedom at the end of history that seemed within grasp when the last competing ideology fell in 1989,. humanity comprehensively shaped by liberalism is today burdened by the miseries of its success