Alain Badiou's analysis of the election and presidency of Sarkozy in France reveals a new political approach. Instead of a limited battle between the right's rejection and the left's nostalgia for the 1960's, Badiou proposes making impossible demands within the status quo as a stimulation of real change by those ignored by the mainstream political parties. This change would occur in the same world occupied by the status quo instead of a utopian recreation of the world.