It's the perfect example of a conflict of interest so diabolical that until we remunerate our politicians on a performance-based basis only, we'd be damned fools to expect any change.
Political self-preservation, of which France's Sarkozy is reliably the world's foremost exponent, is so deeply entrenched in the system that we accept, subconsciously, a lesser standard of 'good leadership' originally a measure of progress, now merely an imposition of noise by the most vocal individual, regardless of substance. It's symptomatic of faltering checks & balances in a world materially distracted. We've become on-demand cyborgs of consumption. Today's Apple is tomorrow's fruitcake... The US too is no different. The same nepotistic flaw is a character-trait nurtured in self-indulgent praise heaped on Members of Congress from within Washington itself. Paradoxically there are MANY politicians who do, in fact, possess the capacity to take us forward but why should they?
In the end our bouffon's many words and fewer deeds have seemingly served him none at all. He's met his Hollande and now's the time to set the record straight... Pay the incumbent less than nothing until performance goals are met.
