I agree.
I can’t imagine how all of the other owners and trainers felt when a sympathy vote won Best in Show. Especially after all the promos given to Uno, the previous year’s winner, and what a champion he was for his whole year of appearances, a la Miss America.
What will this year’s old dog be able to actually do?
That choice totally diminished the prestige of the title.
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.