Is Christmas Our "Wokest" Holiday?

Two Leftish Holiday Songs for Marxists, RINOs and Other Vermin*

Most of us like to think of Christmas as the season of peace and goodwill — a time when even Republicans and Christian nationalists trade beautiful cards to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Sadly, a good many of them seem to forget the lessons Jesus taught after he was born, which tracks their approach to so many kids being born today. I suppose that's understandable. After all, the "love they neighbor" message that Jesus promoted tends to clash with holiday photos of the entire family waving assault rifles in front of a Christmas tree.

When you stop to think about it, Christmas has always been one of our "wokest" holidays. Jesse Watters and the other bigots at Fox News can scream all they want about blasphemous depictions of Santa as a black man in a wheelchair or nutcrackers with rainbow flag hats, but I'd wager the vast majority of holiday songs are more about such treasured values as fellowship, generosity and enjoying one another's company than about bashing people based on race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. With that in mind, allow me to share just a couple of "woke" holiday tunes that I've run across today and happen to enjoy.

"This Year My Wishlist Only Says Peace," by theCatherines

First up is a song by the German "pop jangle" band theCatherines, a sweet and timely holiday tune called "This Year My Wishlist Only Says Peace." It's got a message that's always appropriate and particularly relevant this year. As one reviewer notes,

The track is an indie pop gem with jangling sensibilities and sleigh bells aplenty. More importantly, at a time of cheer and joy, this German ensemble reminds us that there are people less fortunate than us. Once again, theCatherines have created a glistening pop song with a deep and meaningful message.

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"Santa, Stay Home," by U.S. Girls, featuring Rich Morel

This one's actually a couple of years old and it's kind of a frontal attack on much of what this blog works to celebrate, but proposing that Christmas be eliminated due to its huge carbon footprint is going to have the gang at Fox News simultaneously clutching their pearls and screaming for the smelling salts. Formed in 2007, U.S. Girls is a Toronto-based, one-woman project by Meghan Remy. I don't necessarily endorse everything this song's proposing, but she raises some valid points, and it's kind of fun to try to "own the MAGAs" for a change.

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*Hard as it is to believe, one of our former presidents recently echoed Adolph Hitler and several other dictators by publicly referring to his political enemies as "vermin" and threatening to "root them out" if returned to office. Care to guess which former president it was?