One holiday tradition I don't respect is the annual promotion by Fox News of the so-called "war against Christmas." According to Fox, Democrats are trying to destroy Christmas by preventing people from celebrating or even acknowledging the holiday. As evidence, they cite the widespread use of the greeting "Happy Holidays," which they see as disparaging Christmas. They've repeatedly promoted Donald Trump's nonsensical thoughts on this topic, including Trump's repeated and thoroughly debunked assertions that Barack Obama never once wished anyone a "Merry Christmas" while he was president. Of course, there are thousands of videos of President Obama not only using the phrase but openly celebrating Christmas in church and elsewhere.
This week, Fox host Jesse Watters, a preposterous buffoon whose sole purpose at the network appears to be terrifying his elderly viewer base with fabricated and preposterous claims, launched his annual holiday meltdown by decrying a couple of cheap decorations now on sale at Target. The first is a nutcracker doll with a rainbow flag. The second is an ornament depicting Santa as a black man in a wheelchair. To hear Watters' sneering account, such toys threaten our very existence as a nation. No need to worry about Donald Trump's 91 indictments, attempts at witness tampering or Nazi threats, the real danger we face is a plastic toy model of a disabled black Santa.
The principal focus of this blog is holiday music, and I try to avoid politics for the most part. But we're facing a vitally important choice over the next 12 months and there are powerful forces seeking to install a fascist dictatorship in the United States and they'll stop at nothing to win. They've managed to win the support of millions of our fellow citizens by promoting fear and chaos through ridiculous lies like the alleged war on Christmas. Please take the time to educate yourselves about what's really going on!
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