The war on 'Happy Holidays' isn't about Christmas

[Martin68]

12. Republicans can't win on the basis of better ideas or policies, so they invent wedge issues

such as abortion, gay marriage, American History, racism, and affirmative action to deflect from the real issues we face and suggest that Democrats are depraved authoritarian communists. Thus the silly "War on Christmas," which capitalizes on the liberal belief that every religion (and no religion) deserves equal treatment in the public sphere. Sure, many of us started to say "Happy Holiday Season" or whatever, to be all-inclusive rather than Christian-centric. So they jump on that to suggest we are waging a war on Christmas.

It would be stupid, except that it actually gains traction among the Fox News-indoctrinated Republican faithful. I watched it happen with my own parents, who raised us as liberals. They'd suddenly ask me out of the blue about "humanism" because it had been turned into code-word for atheism or communism by the propagandists of the right. Again, it would be amusing if it weren't so effective in creating an "us vs them" situation of hard-working god-fearing Americans against lazy, America-hating, atheistic victims of Russian propaganda.