Our Commericial American Christmas sans Jesus

 If anyone had the time or inclination to pontificate something during our seeming, short-lived, American, Christmas season, what was it?  I'll start.  I used to admonish those who decorated for Christmas before Thanksgiving.  Since I have aged and time goes more quickly, I need two months to prep for true Christmas spirit.  I got it right after Thanksgiving, and then retail's blatant commercialism quashed it.  Whence does this spirit come?  Maybe an odd question, but it's not.  If it is not created by decorating our neighborhoods and downtown, whence does this Christmas spirit come?  Does it come from our schools?  Large clusters of children is fertile soil for the hopes of Christmas gifts brought by Santa Claus.  These gifts have become epicenter of American Christmas spirit, but with the slow death of brick and mortar retail in America and an outbreak of Covid 19 our gift illusions have been tattered.  Gifts or toys are lame or moot if they have no substance; that substance is created by the conception, planning, making, and marketing of Christmas gifts.  There has to be something to them, because a gift is an outward sign of an inward spiritual grace.  American society has become shallow, because the substance upon which we have relied has been sold out.  Sold out!  What does this mean?  Not "sold out" in the sense of a product selling so well there is none left.  "Sold Out" like selling out "to the man."  Anytime I use this phrase, "the man," I am admonished.  I refer back to the 1960's and 70's, when much was amiss in American society.  There is much amiss today, but we have lost our ability or desire to voice our feelings much less actively do something about them.  Perhaps I am speaking only of white America.  Perhaps a brutal war in Viet Nam halfway around the world was enough to spur this anxiety and expression in an emerging "Hippie" movement.  Our soldiers were returning in coffins or missing limbs.  Viet Nam  decimated a large percentage of our young and vital youth.  This could have been the goal.  The War in Viet Nam, not unlike the 9/11 attacks, could have been a ruse, or conspiracy, or plan for ulterior purposes.  Why didn't then President George W. Bush respond  immediately, when officials informed him at the school he was visiting planes had flown into the World Trade Center?  He continued with his lesson to the children ignoring a national emergency which ultimately killed hundreds of innocent Americans.  Could it have been that he knew it was going to happen?  His administration needed some cataclysmic event to boost his political image, so why not stage a tragic event about which he could become America's savior?  Now we have a new bureaucratic agency, his "Department of Homeland Security" and the NSA.  Efficiently Congress passed the Patriot Act and suddenly Washingtonian politics could invade every aspect of our private lives in the name of finding terrorists.  After Ross McNutt pitched his airborne surveillance packages, essentially 360 degree cameras mounted on the underside of a Cessna, no aspect of your life would be private again.  Eventually they would discover that while there always are a few pockets of malcontents, most Americans are law abiding citizens who desire freedom and happiness.  America is not communist, so most Americans are not concerned with conspiracy, political coups, or party tactics.  We just want our MTV, Coca Cola, pornography, and fast food.  This is an exaggeration, so I should include bubble gum as a metaphor for how the Russians have stereotyped America.  If we could acquit the white man from his demonic moniker, we will find that America has a substantial success record including traveling to the moon, creating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and devising jazz music.  Yes, white men were involved in the evolution of this art form mostly created by African-Americans.  While recently affluent white men in positions of authority have proven themselves immature, selfish, depraved, and criminal especially in the area of sexual aggression, these men should not be the representatives of American ingenuity.  We should attribute that to our Founding Fathers, those who penned the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution.   In this age of misinformation and cancel culture,  we want to ignore the Constitution completely.  For a nation to exist in all of its complexity, foundations are needed.  For a socioeconomic system to function and remain viable, it must be supported.  Somehow since the emergence of Donald Trump as president, a contingency has emerged which has chosen to "sell out" America.  "Sell Out" in the cheapest sense of the phrase.  "Sell Out" meaning discard your ideals and your integrity and suck up for the easiest possible reward.  "Be bought."  "Can be bought."  Washington unfortunately has become "bought."  We can can talk about "woke,"  but American has been "bought."  Our entire lifestyle and our social, educational, religious, and philosophical ideology has been "sold out" to a shallow cast of radical horn blowers who only wish to feign power and control the kitty.  They are not qualified or capable of doing much of anything except inciting violence by screaming.  Because we have been protected from this zealot behavior previously by our own systems of checks and balances, we were not ready for this deluge of B.S. that came raining down with the election of Donald Trump.  His electing was fraudulent anyway understanding Hillary Clinton received over two million more popular votes.  Our system is dead, so how were we able to concoct Christmas spirit when our social infrastructure has been dismantled.  It began when the media began trying to eradicate God from our consciousness.  There was an assault on God, and for the most part it has been successful.  With no presence of God humans  can do whatever they want including selling out America.  Honesty, integrity, and selflessness are not natural traits to loudmouth zealots.  These are tenets of Christianity learned in church from the lessons of Jesus Christ.  Because largely we have undermined public education and organized religion, good luck finding your Christmas spirit.  Cheap Chinese trash does not suffice for American ingenuity.