I'm sure the French appreciate your dollars .. hoiwever, socialism has been present in France for hundreds of years and is still very present there today.
The French, like all intelligent societites, continue to perfect and modify their form of givernment to suit the interests of an evolving world .. something Americans have yet to figure out.
By the way, all socialsm, as all democracy, is not the same. I'm a democratic socialist.
.. and just so you'll know, "blackie" is not appropriate coming from you .. but whatever.