This is just a germ of an idea I had while watching the original "Miracle on 34th Street" in 2025. The whole movie comes down to if the government can believe in Santa, by way of collecting his mail, then Kris can be identified as the real Santa Claus.
I was thinking in 2025 when we hear so much about accepting someone's identity based on nothing but their feelings, can't this movie be used as promoting that idea?
There are numerous caveats to this idea, and this isn't my interpretation of the film. But after seeing how these weirdos twist everything into their worldview, I can see these freaks using this movie towards their ends.
There is also a bit of an anti-capitailism message in the movie.
There is a time for cutting people some slack. Communities of people are not meant to be rigidly bureaucratic structures where everything is a binding extrapolable precedent, or philosophically ultra pure a la libertarians.
There's a great commercial from Spanish TV about a grandma who scratches off a winning lottery ticket, except it's from last year's lottery and she's the only one who doesn't know. The whole town comes together to "celebrate" her win because they don't want to break the news to her. Even her surly grandson gets involved. It's a beautiful picture of a homogenous community where people know and care for each other.