Your ideology is stupid.

Well, it may not be stupid, but your inability to step back from it for long enough to look at policy objectively is stupid.

It is fine to have an overarching set of guiding morals upon which you base your actions, but when that that set of ingrained beliefs causes you to ignore evidence and stick to your rigid preset positions.

To change your mind in politics is to be labelled a flip-flopper. I am a flip-flopper and fiercely proud of it. I believe that pragmatism trumps dogmatism any day.