Reply #6: He also makes the point that we shouldn't be able to try new ideas, and

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drop them and try new ones if they fail. He said that's what FDR did.

He says that when you're only ideologically motivated, you refuse to try new ideas if they dont' fit into your ideology.

It's the same ideal. Try something. Evaluate the results. If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn't work, stop doing it.

Republicans believe that the ideology is the most important thing. Eg, they want small government at all costs. Even if you start seeing the economy shrink and rich people getting much richer as a result of a small goverment which can't guaranee a level playing field, they'll keep striving for a smaller and smaller government despite the fact that that one of the benefits of small goverment they promissed was that it would make the economy grow.