Self awareness and the markets

At the age of 3 Maxime thinks that he is already capable of going to the bathroom and cleaning both himself and the toilet afterwards all by his little self. As I cleaned a rather dirty toilet brush and holder this morning under a cold shower I can indeed confirm that this is not the case. I think my eldest lacks a certain degree of self awareness. I wonder if the same can be said for the French population who today voted in a Socialist president - something tells me a cold shower with an excrement laden toilet brush may well be a good harbinger of what the next 5 years in France is going to feel like. For the record, Maxime's day ended with a homemade haircut using his Papi's shears. The end result brought tears to his mother's eye, but I wonder if something similar might happen to Francois Hollande courtesy of the markets and ratings agencies…