Thoughts and ideas are not particularly important—except those that affect your actions and decisions, thoughts that make you stay or make you go, or make you vote for Tweedledum or Tweedledee or decide not to vote.
Some thoughts and ideas are critical; they can change your life. They may make you jump off the bandwagon or jump on another. The idea that thoughts must be silenced or ignored is wrong. Meditation and being in the present now do not necessarily lead to awakening.
