If in a legal state, with a market economy and a democratic political system, there is no national idea, power and people are in an ideological vacuum.
The word "vacuum" in Latin means empty. So they call the space free from matter. An ideological vacuum is understood as the absence of a dominant (unified) ideology in the state and society.
Norms and Images
Ideology is a logical system of ideals and values that allows a person to develop a certain understanding of reality.
Values are peculiar norms by which people distinguish actions, events, concepts. Values have positive or negative meanings for them. For example, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, freedom and slavery.
Ideals reflect fictional images of the future. They correspond to the dreams and expectations of representatives of certain sectors of society. The pursuit of ideals turns into a movement towards an inviting, inspiring goal.
Each has its own
Ideology represents the interests of individual social groups. Substantiates the public order that they want to establish. And criticizes what these groups don't like.
The bearers of ideology are political parties. They, competing with each other, come to power. And they establish their own ideologies in society.
Starring
The state strives for the constancy and stability that are achieved through political and social consolidation. The main role in this process is given to ideology.
However, in a truly free, democratic state, unanimity is not forcibly imposed. After all, society includes a large number of social groups. And they all have the right to their interests taken into account and realized.
But the presence of many different parties, movements, movements does not contribute to the unification of the nation. It loses clear and attractive political, social and moral guidelines for most citizens. Individual social groups cannot identify common goals and ways to achieve them.
When there is no ideology in society and the state that is accepted and supported by the majority (people), it is in an ideological vacuum.
