Farewell France?

Why emulate those whom you ridicule so justifiably?

France and Sarkozy remind me greatly of the misguided aims of communism in practice. Communist governments spent so much time concerning themselves with progress, with worrying about being more productive and beating capitalism at its own game, they forgot that communism's attractions relate to the possibility of living better.

Wherefore art thou o ideology that careth not for the productive cog, but for humankind in its resplendent glory?

Wherefore art thou o salvation from this mortal coil?