[Dubayoo]

Following are some guidelines I've realized over time. Feel free to add your own:

• Merely claiming to be an ideologue doesn't mean someone is one. People often misrepresent themselves on purpose to provoke you into arguing against them. That way, they can feel good about themselves getting under your skin, they can use your mind to figure out how to deal with an actual ideologue, or they can set you up into opposing a specific style of ideologue so you ignore other styles.
  
• People's ideologies often change over time. It doesn't happen right away, but it often happens between 5 to 25 years. Some people are stubborn and others are loyal, but most people are practical. They pick and choose whichever ideology fits their needs at the moment in the life they live.
  
• Persuasion usually fails because people have hidden ulterior motives. Even if you make sense, people often have too much ego and vanity to acknowledge it. That is people represent their own ideologies a certain way to be persuasive, but if you go along with their style, they think you're naive if not ridiculous for actually believing in their style.
  
• Most ideologues don't actually care about people who get hurt in life. When the chips are down, they scurry away from having to uphold their convictions. Instead, they either give victims the silent treatment, tell them it sucks to be them, or tell them to see a psychologist to learn coping mechanisms for a personal problem. Most ideologues don't recognize the issues of people falling through the cracks of society even if they claim to recognize flaws in the system.
  
• Most people don't choose an ideology to support based on the ideology being justified. Even those who pick one out of self-interest usually aren't interested in whether or not the ideology can personally help them. What they care about is whether or not an ideology is popular among their peers to garnish social acceptance.
  
• Behind the scenes are people who tinker with the motives on why groups come together in order to exploit the self-fulfilling prophecies and vicious cycles of problematic paradigms. If you point them out, they will accuse you of being a unappreciative cynic. On the other hand, people who don't tinker are often pointed out by groups as if they do tinker, yet if the groups are counter-accused, the counter-accusers are labeled as conspiracy theorists.
  
• Most political hypocrites thrive on corruption of due process, trying to suggest that those affected by their hypocrisy are actual hypocrites because they demand support in due process without consent. This is despite how consent is often violated in the first place when it comes to the spirit of the law. In turn, adjudicators will often appeal to the same pragmatism which hypocrites appeal to such that wrongdoers and adjudicators are on the same side of the law.
  
• Most of politics is a setup game to try to ruin people. It's very rare that politics is actually used constructively. The most common excuse behind getting away with ruining is society is content with it, so the victim is selfish for expecting rights to be upheld.
  
• Intergenerational bias is usually established despite a difference in beliefs between people because what really matters in politics is the motives on why people hold beliefs. Even if someone is on the same political side as a victim, that someone will play favorites towards others on the opposite if one anticipates that others are on a similar path of maturity as they took in their past or will take in the future. This will often come along with the excuse of claiming unbiased neutral moderate positions.
  
• Most people understand all of the above. They just don't admit it. Sometimes, it's because it's difficult to talk about either because their intuition is caught off guard or it's difficult to put into words. Other times, it's because they just revel in playing dumb.