Winners and Losers

Well.

Sadly, Vancouver came up short last night - but, at the end of the day, it's just a game.

And, as has become too pathetically common, the news of Boston's win in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final is overshadowed by the actions of yet another group of social misfits and losers who used the event as an opportunity to riot and cause damage to other people's property.

I had the good fortune to be at Game 2, Vancouver's overtime win in Vancouver - and I can tell you that even in the post-game euphoria of that win, as I made my way from Rogers Arena back to my hotel on Robson, in the midst of the thousands of cheering, happy fans - even then, I noted a few assholes trying to start trouble, "Let's roll over a car!" yelled by them more than once.

And, invariably, when you see them, you know exactly what is going on.

Take a good look at the above pictures and video.

These are losers who are angry and bitter because they are, ultimately, losers.  And so, they attend gatherings of large crowds to act out like the petulant children that they are - breaking and damaging the property of other people who have actually made something of themselves.  Like a whining brat throwing a tantrum, they are just aching to cause mayhem.

Now - in fairness, these are not the unfortunate and downtrodden.  These are not people who made the effort to improve their situation and struggle against circumstances outside of their control.  These are quite the opposite - people who were given the tools to succeed - usually white, middle or lower-middle class males.

And that's, I suggest, what feeds their infantile behavior.

Because they know, deep down, they are failures and losers.

They know they had advantages that others did not.  They are, typically, not gay, not women, not visible minorities - they are the top of the food chain so-to-speak - people who have none of the normal disadvantages that many others have to surmount to succeed - and yet, when they look in a mirror, they see a loser.

And they have fed off of the "culture of entitlement" that our progressive politics creates - and when their expectations are not met..

That makes them angry.  That leads to their mindless tantrums.

Fortunately, the winners outnumber the losers.  While the media loves to concentrate on the profane - there are those who remind us what it is to be a decent Canadian.

Winners:

Thousands volunteer online to clean up Vancouver’s riot mess

**P.S. Cudos to Vancouver Police for handling an explosive situation with a relatively high degree of professionalism and restraint.  While some are complaining over their lack of agression, the guilty will be found and prosecuted - and the innocent who were caught up in the fray were never subjected to broadly applied vioent response by authorities.  A job that appears to have been well-done in a difficult situation.