I truly believe that the progressive socialist left in America is looking at a long-term political exile. Americans rejected their adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel. We prefer a good old American story, perhaps like another Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America." Am I glad that Angela forced me to go to see Les Miserables? Heck no, but it did make me realize how I did not want to live. I do not want to be with the miserable ones, disenfranchised, and certainly not a believer in social justice. I was able to glean all that in a Cliff Notes summary of Victor Hugo's novel. I did not need three hours of misery watching people sing too loud, and none of them sang “Rocky Top!”