I’m not being grumpy, merely commenting on how rigging a competion is socially acceptable. If I’m honest it’s actually the bigger theme of praising and never criticising that seems to prevail in modern parenting/education that I’m curious about, i.e I have helped you win by getting people to vote for you instead of you getting there by your own merits.
the very fact that any questioning of current attitudes is perceived as ‘grumpy’ is also something else that I find really odd, it’s as if being a ‘yes man’ and going with the current passive unquestioning norm is ‘happy’ and actually standing up and having a different opinion is ‘grumpy’.
That’s exactly the attitude those in power want you to have.
I’m going to toddle of and crack open a winter ale, make a hat out of tinfoil and finish reading Orwell’s 1984 🙄