WINNERS AND LOSERS

The far right and the far left don't like competition. If you are on the right, you want to monopolize whatever you are involved in. Read about the Robber Barons and check out Teddy Roosevelts trust busting activities.

On the far left, losing is bad for the psyche of the developing child and for mental health in general. For instance, in many areas it is no longer legal to play dodgeball and some area in Maryland ( according to G Gordon Liddy on his show) the liberals are trying to eradicate the game of tag. It creates too many losers. What a boring world we are headed for if there are no more losers. Liberal educators , to the extreme want to do away with grading. No more failures, please.

I was a coach for a number of years and I can speak about the subject of winning and losing.. Everyone WANTS to be a winner. In our present day concept of winning, it takes a desire to win and that, in turn, requires hard work and discipline to reach your goal. If you make it, guess what, you created a loser. Worse, you lost and now maybe you will work harder and suceed the next time. That's not all bad is it?

Take this a step further; there are far more losers than winners in this world . A league of 10 teams will usually have 9 losers at the end of the season. Elections have losers. Wars have losers. Everyone loses in a war, in fact. We are all losers at one time or another. we have a far better chance of losing than winning. My big question is how can you know what it feels like to be a winner if you never lost?? Competition is the lifeblood of life. Without it could society progress? Losing usually makes a person try harder to win the next time.

You can't feel good if you don't know what it is to feel bad. Thankfully, most of us feel good more than we feel bad.