Good point.
LOL, in a sense this is happening in the democratic countries, where the legislations are getting forced down you more and more, all thet surveillance and such.
But as for the failiure, Western Europe was taken away from the Germans, so that was a good thing, and out of the two evils, I'd have gone commie rather than living under Hitler 
Depending on your ethnicity and station, that may or may not have been the smart choice. Fascism is economically superior to Communism, its idealogy being less economically centered than Communism and thus more flexible in that regard. A Jew would be worse off under Hitler, a moderately succesful farmer, under Stalin. As for other considerations, the ideological basis may be different, but world Communism was just as brutal and ultimately resulted in more bodies. In fact, Nazism in Germany was partly a reaction to Communist terrorist activity in Eastern Europe, the same way certain evils in today's America are a reaction to Islamic terrorism...but I digress.
Yes, once France, and especially our English cousins were under attack by Hitler, we were committed to WWII. A non political-suicide way to enter the war would have been found, even without Pearl Harbor. However, the reason the French and English entered the war was to suppress Hitler's aggression in the East. Which itself is something of a carryover from the 19th century, when many nations of Eastern Europe were carved out of the Old Austro-Hungarian empire an an attempt to give the ethnic groups there their own states. Which is what was called "Nationalism", ironically enough, considering what happened later.
IMHO, the nations of the world suffered alot of young men dying in the most horrible ways imaginable, lots of women and children incinerated, etc, just to let Stalin grab up Eastern Europe and have HIS Evil empire oppress at home and rattle sabers abroad for 50 years until it collapsed under its own weight.
