Liberalism: Losing is Winning, and Winning is Losing

In the upside-down world of the Liberal Zone, things take on a surreal quality.  I know the saying that suggests, “only a liberal can stand on his head and tell everyone else that they’re upside down,” but what I saw this morning takes the cake.

Apparently, an Ottawa youth soccer league has decreed that if a a team wins by more than five goals, they lose!  For more on this steaming pile of liberal fail, here are some comments from the National Post.

The Gloucester Dragons Recreational Soccer league’s newly implemented edict is intended to dissuade a runaway game in favour of sportsmanship. The rule replaces its five-point mercy regulation, whereby any points scored beyond a five-point differential would not be registered.

Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right after he had scored his team’s last allowable goal. His team then tossed the ball around for fear of losing the game.

He said if anything, the league’s new rule will coddle sore losers.

“They should be saying anything is possible. If we can get five goals really fast, well, so can the other team,” said Kevin, 17, who has played in the league for five years. “People grow in adversity, they don’t really get worse…. I think you’ll see more leadership skills being used if a losing team tries to recuperate than if they never got into that situation at all.”

Well, leadership skills are bad, folks.  That implies that some kids can think for themselves and adapt.  The left would view that as counterrevolutionary and dangerous, so that is to be minimized.

Mr. Cappon said the organization is trying to “reinvent the wheel” by fostering a non-competitive environment. The league has 3,000 children enrolled ranging in age from four to 18 years old.

“Everybody wants a close game, nobody wants blowouts, but we don’t want to go by those farcical rules that they come up with,” he said. “Heaven forbid when these kids get into the real world. They won’t be prepared to deal with the competition out there.”

Paul Cholmsky, whose four- and six-year-old boys play in the league, said the intended goal of a default-lose rule might backfire in teaching life skills.

“If there’s one team that’s consistenly dominant and one team that’s not, well, that’s life,” he said.

Gentlemen, these children ARE being prepared for life…in the nanny state.  Let’s say that Junior decides not to study in school, and his career options consist of; “do you want fries with that?” The government will fear for his self esteem and thoughtfully redistribute some wealth from the kid that made A’s, and is successful (forget that this causes the successful kid to hire less people, or even lay some off).  If Junior buys a house that he can’t afford, no problem!  The nanny state will come to the rescue!  In fact, the nanny state will force banks to lend him the money!  Remember that in the nanny state, people have equality of outcome, NOT opportunity.  Failure will be rewarded, and success will be punished.

I really hope that some parents will tire of this fail and form leagues that actually teach real life lessons, like hard work, practice, and learning from failure.  Just rescuing people leads to dependence and failure.