Socialism is all about control. To achieve control, the left uses a variety of techniques. For best effect, they sometimes combine techniques. Combining fear with envy can be very powerful. There’s even a parable of sorts about this effect. The bucket of crabs analogy goes something like this: If you have a bucket of crabs, they are all fat and happy at the bottom of the bucket—until one of them tries to escape. When one of them attempts to better his situation, the others pull him back down into captivity.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is deftly using that combination of fear, calling it “safety,” along with the “bucket of crabs,” technique. Here’s how. The United States has produced a gymnastics phenomenon in the person of Simone Biles. This young lady, through dint of dedication, hard work and the quintessentially American attitude of being willing to “roll the hard six,” is performing routines that appear to defy the law of gravity. She is in such a class by herself, that the other crabs in the bucket have contracted with FIG, the gymnastics governing authority, to pull her back down with them. //

Scoring in high-level gymnastics is markedly different than in most other sports. Rather than athletes earning points throughout a performance, the decision-makers at the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) pre-assign scores to routines based on the difficulty of the skills involved. Then, judges evaluate execution in real-time, docking points from the potential total every time a gymnast makes a mistake during their program. //

Biles suggested that the FIG has serially undervalued her skills because "they don't want the field to be too far apart," she told The Times. If the FIG keeps her provisional scores low, Biles' thinking goes, th[a]n other gymnasts may have a fighting chance.