Conservatives are always insisting they are all about freedom and tradition, while liberals claim they are motivated by compassion for the poor. It's not that I disavow ideology--don't get me wrong---it's just that our modern ideological divisions---liberal or conservative are really about serving various elites in the society. 

Conservativism (ie, George Will) is the defense of the interests of the CEO and Leisure classes. Liberalism is the ideology of over-educated well-to-do white liberals (ie, Hillary Clinton), so sheltered and protected, that they can't imagine that human passion should not be limited by tradition or religion. Liberals are always coming up with schemes where the rest of us are supposed to bear the burden for THEIR sense of social justice. Conservatives are always coming up with schemes to give the folks who have the most a little more. Liberals gave us forced busing and affirmative action, Conservatives took the surplus from the Social Security Trust fund and gave it to the top 20% richest Americans in the form of a tax cut.  Well..you get the idea.

As for libertarianism and communism--they are mirror images of each other. While the Communist believes is absolute equality, the Libertarian believes in absolute freedom. Both are utopian and irrational, and equally dangerous and destructive. Not really political philosophies, libertarianism/communism resemble the mind-set of the cult group. "Cult of Ayn Rand" anyone?

If we must have an ideology, this is the ideology it should be:

"Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."