Get Me Outa Here!

Several baseball teams of an 11-12 year old boys tournament left a tournament because one particular team was "too good". The tournament directors supported "the quitters", telling the excellent team that they should play somewhere else.

This phenomenon of attempting to "equal the playing field in all aspects of American life" has become particularly annoying to me. The concept is a major effort supported by the political party of which I AM NOT affiliated, thank God.

While there is an effort to raise the confidence and abilities of those at the lowest achieving levels of our society-which is a noble action-the effort is equal in attempting to lower the achievements of those who are very successful and truly excel.

The goal is to achieve a society that is equal in abilities, skills, income, and class, regardless of whether the individual has achieved their full potential. The belief is that if we eliminate the stress of competition and the disappointment of "losing", life will be easier and less stressful.

This concept parallels the concept of American education that I recently wrote about. That concept of education is often referred to as "dumbing down". That is, lowering the expectations and results of the high achievers, or otherwise removing them from the spotlight so that others are not placed in a position of attempting to achieve the same level of success but in fact, experiencing the "pain" of losing or failing.

And these concepts, my friends...are more reasons that I've got to get outa here....