Ideology begins with the belief that those who don’t think like you do so either out of malice or out of ignorance, meaning that what is left to do is to either instruct them or destroy them.

I am tired of soapboxers. I obliterate them out of my life as soon as I spot them. There are many categories of people I can’t do without: bus drivers, business owners, street cleaners… Ideologues are not among them.