I Knew This Was A Bad Idea

In the aftermath of the felons victory there was handwringing and soul searching being done by the Democrats as to why they were beaten by a flawed and stupid candidate. One of the things they came upon was that young men of a certain age have moved to the right and away from more liberal policies because they feel the Democrats are not manly enough for them.

Now, the fact that these dopes are as unmanly as you can get and the irony is completely lost on them, doesn't change the fact that this is an issue for the Democratic Party. How do they win these voters back? The party is spending $20 million to figure out what they can do. I can save them $10 million, just give me a call. Better yet, just share this blog with someone in Washington and have them Zelle me the money.

Twenty five years ago when I first heard about the new practice of giving every kid that played organized sports a trophy for "participating" I knew we had lost our minds as a country. I remember telling family and friends that this was going to hurt the kids in the long run, and today I am being proven prophetic.

My concern was that one of the things, you/ I, learned as a kid was where you stood in the pecking order of athletic talent by playing against your peers. We divided each other up and played baseball, football, hockey, and other games with the winners getting to rub the faces of the losers in it until the next match.

You knew where you stood by the order in which you were chosen. Those better players were taken first and the not so better players were taken last. If you were picked after the kid with the broken wrist you knew you were not good. Sure, it hurt, I guess. I was always one of the first picked so I have no firsthand knowledge myself. But after the forty ninth time you kind of got used to it and accepted your lot in life.

Now, many of those picked last on the field of games, were picked first to attend Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc while the rest of us settled for the 256th ranked school in America, Northern Illinois University. OK, it hurt but I understood I had serious learning deficiencies and I accepted it and moved on.

All of this is to say that knowing at an early age where you stood in the world made it easier to survive the real grown up world when we got older. Losing out on a job, or a date, or whatever, you were prepared for the possibility and didn't go into a violent rage killing everyone in the mailroom over not getting something. Well, most of us anyway.

Reading that today's young men feel threatened by women getting jobs they thought they should be entitled to, or not understanding that when a women says no she means no, can all be trailed back to participation trophies. If they would have been told back when they were six years old that, "Jimmy, you suck at baseball but the rules say I have to play you for three innings a week so that will be all you play," they would be way better off today.

I find it offensive that anyone is paying money to figure out how to win these dopes back when what they need is to smacked upside the head and told to snap out of it as the Academy Award winning actress Cher told Nicholas Cage in Moonstruck.

Young men, please stop acting like a spoiled four year old. Grow the hell up and quit being the fool.