I think you are few layers above or below me on the onion.

When I think of reality, I think of how we perceive the world around us with our senses. We all experience heat and cold, light and dark. Common to all of us are pleasure and pain, although some of us enjoy mixing the two. We live in a colorful world but I occasionally wonder if my green is your red or something else. How is one to know?

But when you talk about political ideology and attitudes derived from a conceptual environment, you are talking about things like right and wrong and about thought. The physical universe and it’s laws have little to do with human interaction.

We are the culmination of what we were given entering this world, how we were raised (indoctrinated) and everything we’ve experienced.