Adopting an ideology so rigidly that you stop thinking and live entirely by its physical and mental diktats rots the mind.
That’s why people on the radical Left often appear like automatons: they’ve surrendered thought in favor of ideological programming.
But this isn’t unique to the Left. Anyone who uses an ideology as an absolute template for life risks the same decay.
Some libertarians, for instance, are so ideologically opposed to military intervention that they become blind to the need for national defense against real enemies.
Interestingly enough, Hillary came from a conservative Chicago family. She was very interested in politics from an early age. When she was 13, she campaigned for Richard Nixon when he was running against John F. Kennedy and later Barry Goldwater. This including doorbelling; they got the addresses to visit from the official voting rolls. She was outraged that so many of the people who they tried to visit were living at the same addresses many of which were at parking lots or vacant buildings. She was outraged and went on a letter writing campaign and visited politicians who were supposed to be her representatives to try and clean up the voter rolls in Chicago and Illinois. This accomplished absolutely nothing and left her cynical and bitter.
But it did not end her dreams of becoming president of anything. She ran for class President starting at Eugene Field Elementary School in Park Ridge Illinois, then Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School in Park Ridge, and then Maine East High School also in Park Ridge. She always lost until her senior year at Maine East High School. Then she was elected president of the student government at Wellesley College in her senior year (1968–1969).
When she first started at Wellesley she was a member of the young Republicans. The vast majority of the kids attending Wellesley were liberals and she realized that if she wanted to be successful in student government there, she would have to represent herself as a liberal. Of course, when she met fellow political opportunist Bill Clinton at Yale this further cemented her all out support for the liberal agenda.
She is obviously a biter, evil, power hungry political opportunist who fortunately for all of us never got closer than first lady to the Presidency. Many people who want to achieve power and fortune through politics are not truly committed to any ideology. They are chameleons who will represent themselves in any way that they determine will be most advantageous for them to become closer to their goals.