QOTD

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez quoted in the Australian, speaking at the Copenhagen climate conference:

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.

As Rick at Wizbang says:

You have to be an idiot, a blooming friggin' fool, not to see the global warming movement now for what it truly is.

This is largely about ideology. This is largely about that which communists/Marxists/socialists have been after for as long as those ideologies have been around. This is largely about ending Western (capitalist) exceptionalism.

When Hugo Chavez gets a standing ovation for decrying capitalism while praising socialism and Marxism, then understand this has little to do with weather or man-made global warming.

If you're not seeing this now. . . you never will.