What I'm saying, and I agree mostly with you, is call it whatever you like - it's called 'Christmas', great - it's called 'Xmas', great, its called 'a pain in the ass', great. Does the man on the street care? No. They're worried about the mortgage, car payments, food increases, war, killing, murder, trying to stop your kids from smashing up Congress.
Col
I see your point, I just think that slow, gradual, point-by-point cultural degradation actually IS a big part of what causes people to not be able ultimately to pay their mortgages, food, killing, and crime.
Of course there will always be those who say it's because the government isn't giving them
quite enough free stuff yet.
All of it matters.
Let's be honest for a moment. In your country, godlessness didn't strip people of every decent moral character. There was a sense of honor and dignity and hard work that seemed to persist despite.
In our country it's not that way. The further our society gets away from the basics of faith in God and value of together-families, the worse everyone's behavior gets, and the closer we get to anarchy and an ever-increasing percentage of society just flat-out LAZY.
Ok everyone, now dissect that - I'm pretty sure some will have much to say about it! Starting with some complex reason why we must deny reality and blame it on something else - white supremacy, racism, misogyny and the like.
But it's really super simple and can be boiled down thusly in many cases:
The ever-decreasing sense of MORAL RESPONSIBILITY is instantaneously filled with human nature's quite-ready IT'S EVERYONE ELSE'S FAULT/BLAME.
That's it! It really is that simple. That explains the workforce, it explains job participation, it explains reparations, it explains literally everything to do with half of society seeing through the lens of "if you want it, work for it" - and becoming totally successful by doing so, while the other half deliberately refuses to do that and then claims it is proof that working doesn't work.
A wise man once said: "It works if you work it - but work it!"