You can argue that Christmas has become a crass commercialized event, but at the same time it’s still a period where people tend to be a little nicer, tend to recognize the importance of children and innocent childhood, and don’t try to push identity politics or LGBT (as much, anyway).
You still hear traditional Christian music on the mainstream radio stations during this time, stuff written in the 1700s by the dreaded ‘straight christian cis white males’. December is probably the only month left where some dumb identity politics shit hasn’t been declared, i.e. “National Latinx Heritage Month” or “LGBTQSTRV Anal Beads Month”, etc. Because they know it’s “Christmas Month” and nothing will compare.
Yes you still have the effect of the late-20th / early-21st century political correctness, before identity politics, where corporations and governments say “holiday season” instead of “Christmas”, but everyone still knows it’s all about Christmas and all the mainstream cultural staples are solidly Christmas in nature. Even new movies and TV shows for Christmas tend to lean more traditional, and dumb attempts by certain “Early Life” people to satirize and sexualize Christmas (“Santa, Inc”. in 2021) crash and burn hard (1.5/10 on IMDB).
No other pre-Woke mainstream cultural event seems to have this kind of status, I feel like the Fourth of July (or Canada Day) is now constantly under attack from leftists, same with Thanksgiving. The most popular cultural event in 2020s mainstream culture is probably the goddamn Gay Pride Month.
I’m curious if anyone else has any points to make on this or views to express, I’m trying to figure out how the lefists and Marxists are going to ploy to destroy Christmas.
Christmas is the last holiday where you can reasonably guarantee a day off, after Thanksgiving became a half-day, Fourth of July became a glorified appliance sale day, and no one cares about Easter anymore. I think even leftists are hesitant to rock the boat, lest they tear down the last remaining refuge from work.