Absolutely. I foresee next years title going to the winner of the annual “Ugliest Dog Contest” since you MUST feel pity for an animal as ugly as the one who won this year.
The touchy feelie nonsense has diminished all we once held up for praise and an example. Now it is not what you accomplish it’s what you TRIED to accomplish. Those who are successful through application of their acquired skills are now seen to be “lucky” and to have, as Clinton once said, been the “winner of life’s lottery”
I can only believe it is all part of the plan to diminish individual incentive, making it something that will not be rewarded and so pointless in it’s pursuit. Then we all become part of the same “herd” and live daily to walk docilely to the trough of the government as they hand us what they think we ought to have.
Sadly, I agree with what you wrote so well.
The Plan is to diminish personal achievement as a worthy goal.
Just as many Americans take our standards of living as ‘normal’ - for example, the everyday technology that we use, - they cannot imagine how drastically our world can become when Lincoln’s words no longer apply:
a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
PS: Can you imagine any questioner at a GWB townhall meeting asking him for a house or a job? I can’t, and I watched as much coverage of his public appearances as American TV allowed from the time of his first campaign.
Now we have reached a point where people look to the president to fix personal woes. I blame the Katrina [New Orleans] media coverage, when every delay or sad result was blamed personally on Bush, as the event which made this kind of thinking acceptable.