But here in the only place where many South Koreans come close to North Koreans, the North has built fences to protect the poor from ideological contamination from the rich.
Jones, chief executive of the Community Service Society, one of the city's oldest social service agencies for the poor, says ideological blinders are keeping the architects of welfare reform from facing up to the new, post-Sept.
The grassroots anti-crime organisations tended to be poorer, more ideological and more focused on the causes of crime and on human rights.
But the real reasons for their opposition to helping the poor are purely ideological and funded by our country's richest of the rich.
For many years, we were not strong enough in confronting this and allowed the contamination of some of our communities through what I would call 'poor ideological hygiene'".
Although the projects quickly became victims of under-investment, poor management and the ideological power of home ownership and suburbia, they were only one of a number of ambitious American attempts to provide decent alternatives to the tyranny of the mortgage.
Mr Pence's decision to expand government health-care coverage for Indiana's poor is also considered ideological heresy by some.
Rich and poor nations engaged in heated ideological skirmishing even as they battled to defend narrow vested interests, with Ecuadorean bananas and Thai tuna among issues that at times blocked consensus.
In the end Mr. Bamford's conclusions are alarming, if not unfamiliar ones: that incompetence, timidity and a lack of readiness contributed to the failure to prevent the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and that misinformation, ideological agendas and poor intelligence led to the decision to go to war against Iraq.
In the struggle for dominance, silliness often relegates humanity's simple justice, the plight of the poor mere pawns of the ideological struggle and Jerusalem the center of 3 religions this microcosm's pivotal example.
"It makes me happy when gold falls," he wrote in a recent Twitter post, "since it means many of my ideological opponents are poorer than they were the day before".
