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I think they are seperable. Facts can exist without ideology and ideology can exist without facts. Of course ideology without facts is just a form of fantasy. But facts without ideology are still just facts.
The thing about facts is that people don't want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. You shouldn't dodge the truth simply because people may suffer from the truth.
It seems many have gone down the road of I only look at the facts, or maybe "alternative facts", that support my ideology instead of the opposite being true. In some ways it is much easier that way. Why change your ideology when you can just change the facts. But I believe the truth doesn't care about liberal or conservative, it exists, has existed and will exist long after humanity is gone and those definitions fade away. Facts exist whether we believe them or not. Obviously, admitting you are incorrect is difficult for all and impossible for some. Yet if we are to move forward and not backwards facts will have to regain there once prominent position even if they don't suit our ideology.
As Sherlock Holmes said, "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
The essential problem begins when we go on to say that fact X means thus and such. It is usually at this point that ideology comes on stage.
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