Many of the current political races are polarized between ideologies. One is a welfare state kind of situation and the other is a libertarian utopia. It happens on high and low levels. Americans are kind of libertarian by nature, but with that comes a socialist movement who can always depend on the victims of the free market to add to their numbers. The leftists are losing out even though right now regulation has become such a big deal. On a global scale neoliberal capitalism is the system. But a new breed of dirty hippy socialists, or anarchists as the OPD calls them, are gaining rank on a global level. What worries me about this is the level of militancy on both sides. It is building up to be a strange insurgency. In a way the term 'global south' has already been outdated since basically the whole world is an open shop. I continue to look for a viable third option, but so many of my hopes for humanity have been crushed lately. I fear that for the general public the world is deteriorating. Its hard to say, for no statistics can tell you weather we are living better or worse than we did in the past. But a dismal gloom hangs over many a mid level city ( as in Oakland where so many feel that justice has not been carried out in the Oscar Grant case.)