Thanksgiving, the holiday that gotten eaten alive.

[woo me with science]

18. It doesn't mean much to you, yet you felt the need

to jump in here and suggest that Madhound should not be posting about this. Why?

You didn't just say that people will do what they will do. You argued that this sort of encroaching corporatization into yet another holiday is a natural, grass roots-driven evolution of society, which is ridiculous on its face unless you want to deny the behavior-shaping power of trillions in advertising money and the very reason for Madison Avenue's existence. People didn't come up with the idea for this change; the corporations did.

Yes, we are targets of deliberate expansion of pressure and opportunities to buy, and systematic minimization of other options for leisure and satisfaction. The goal of corporate America is to create a society in which they profit from every single thing we do. That means commercializing leisure time and our value systems as much as possible through messages on the TV, pushing propaganda and policies that defund libraries and public parks and other free options for entertainment, turning holidays into "buying" days, and maximizing through advertising those holidays that yield the greatest profit. It also means getting people used to the idea that they should work or be buying in the stores on what used to be days set aside for enjoyment of family and friends.

It is very telling that posts like Madhound's can *never* go by anymore without immediate and predictable responses like yours, always from the same small group of people here who reliably support the corporate Democratic agenda and the shifting of our party to defending corporate interests over the interests of the people. It is a pattern that is worth pointing out, I think.