Gerald Francis "Jerry" Gaus (1952 – 19 August 2020[1]) was an American philosopher and the founding editor of the academic journal Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
In the midst of this, mainstream political philosophy continues to spin out endless rationalizations of the theorist’s ideological convictions.
What truly flummoxes contemporary political philosophy is how to seriously and productively theorize about a deeply morally diverse society.
[3][4] Gaus argues that an overriding emphasis on ideal social states causes individuals to wish for impossible political perfection and thus lose their sense of what constitutes practical policy advocacy as well as logical choices during elections.
Gaus gives other warnings such as that people can lose their sense of how much has already been achieved and how well current situations have become in certain circumstances.