President Chavez brought the house down.
When he said the process in Copenhagen was "not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn't that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship...down with imperial dictatorships" he got a rousing round of applause.
When he said there was a "silent and terrible ghost in the room" and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.
But then he wound up to his grand conclusion - 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - "our revolution seeks to help all people...socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that's the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let's fight against capitalism and make it obey us." He won a standing ovation.
Time to stake out the ground, and stand on it.
What the world does, a world with very different values, a world where those who make it unsafe for jews to walk the streets find superb levels of approval, where newspapers are shuttered, leaders self appoint for lifetimes, and TV stations are bludgeoned to silence ... a world ALIEN to the Founders hopes ... is nothing for us to seek approval from.
It is for us to hold them IN THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE CONTEMPT.