ideology vs. philosophy

In his profile of Bill Clinton (the 9/11 new yorker) David Remnick asks him what he thinks about his successor. BC says he worries less about GW's intellect than his ideology: "...But the thing that bothers me about having an ideology as opposed to a philosophy is that, if you have an ideology, then the outcome is dictated before the facts are in, before the arguments are heard. And that, I think, can cause problems.”

I was thinking about that in light of the politics around poetry, such as they are. Perhaps the disparate and mostly artificial ideologies are what keep us from being surprised, seeing beauty...perhaps we're dictating the outcome of a poem before the facts are in.