This week we have been awarded another display of a group of citizens (children), who did not get what they wanted, putting on a display of a childish tantrum.  The difference between the innocence of children and a crying jag, and this group is the level of their destructive behavior.

Perhaps America is again responsible for this, now getting to be regular, event.  For it was in 2000 that we saw many of these children yelling and screaming and threatening and crying.  Why?  Over the simple fact that their hero, their cause celebre' had lost an election.  To this day, we are still being treated to such childish rants as "selected not elected" and "Al Gore, the Elected President", even though there is no basis in fact for any of their childishness. 

2000 was a close election, of that no one disagrees.  But not for the first time in the history of the United States of America did the winning candidate garner fewer popular votes than the winner (yes, the previous last time was over a century ago).  Yet the election process in the United States is clear.  The Electoral College chooses the president, not the people. 

And so it has gone for the last 6+ years in the land of Hot dogs and Apple Pie.

In 2006, this petulance of the child then spread.  Where else?  But to our neighbors to the south.  Mexico, in the closest election in their history (and the most fair in a land not known for many above board elections), Mexico elected Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa.  And the opposition erupted again in wailing and crying - and in this case, some actual rioting in the streets.  Someone has to win, and in almost every election I know, it can be by 1 vote, or 1 million (popular or electoral) votes.  But that the election was close was an excuse used by the opposition to declare the election was not "fair", even though no evidence to the contrary has ever been found.

Onward marches time, and another election in yet another country.  This time, the results were not so close, but once again the losing opposition decried the election (while not as of yet calling it stolen, unfair, or crooked) and this time took to the streets.  Burning, looting and vandalizing.  For the simple reason their candidate did not win. This time, Nicolas Sarkozy won with a fairly significant margin, yet he was not "the correct choice".

In 3 instances, there was outrage, crying, yelling, screaming and wailing over election results.  In 3 different countries that do not have a whole lot in common (unless one considers that one nation ruled all or part of them at one time in their history).  While the countries do not have a lot in common, the losers share more than being sore losers in common.

In all 3 cases, the losers were what is considered the "left".  Call them liberals, socialists, Democrat Revolutionaries.  The single binding characteristic of the 3 and their supporters are that they are considered the left in their countries, and they lost.  And their supporters, and in some cases they themselves, cried, ranted and raved, and took to the streets.

Like a spoiled child told they cannot have that box of Choco Puffs who drops to the floor of the store screaming and yelling and trying to squeeze a tear or 2 out.

It is getting monotonous.  Are we now going to be treated to the same behavior by the immature juvenile delinquents on the left every time they lose an election?  Why it has not even stopped when they win an election as was demonstrated in 2006 in the United States.  The same behavior ensues.

I would like to tell them to grow up.  But as any parent of a child on a tantrum knows, words are useless in the fit of the moment with the child.  They hear nothing, and will listen to nothing until they get their way.  Or they get disciplined.  And that is what is lacking here.  Instead of spanking these overgrown children and putting them on restriction, the rest of society coddles them and tries to bribe them with empty words, or threaten them with impotent ones.

It is truly sad that rational political debate is getting harder and harder to engage in, but then few people think you can rationally discuss issues with a petulant child.  And so the left is fast becoming a petulant child.  Those not throwing the tantrums, do not seem to be embarrassed by their siblings that are.  Instead they excuse them with platitudes that accomplish nothing except to embolden the child to more tantrums.

The scariest part of this whole childish trend, is not really in the behavior.  Some of us old enough to remember, saw it 40-50 years ago.  No, the scariest part is that it is becoming all to common and accepted.  And the wonder is why would the adults of the world even think of electing children to run their governments.  Yet I guess with so many children, some want one of their own to play in the big sandbox - regardless of how mature they may be.