With Halloween behind us we move into the holiday season with the two big holidays on the horizon.
Of course its often considered the happiest period of the year but a season of giving thanks and celebrating the spirit of Christmas is going to be marked by fear mongering about immigrants and racism
The racism message is clear enough, hidden as make America great again.
The so called great years weren't really that great for many Americans, but in a sort of Normal Rockwell way we have built them up to some idyllic vision, at least for some.
What is always appealing, to some extent, are the memories of our childhood, which good or bad made us what we are today.
That idea of family was often false but pervasive and for most of us at least somewhat true as we did celebrate the holidays as best we could.
The fact that the rest of the year was in fact a struggle was usually not something we talked about at Thanksgiving but instead celebrated that we had made it through.
I'm not sure this has changed as much as some think, but we do have the hate mongers who feel that they need to enforce some cookie cutter idea of how to live on everybody else.
Families today may look very different or very much the same as they once did, but to the extent they can celebrate the holidays together it isn't different at all
The message of the season is love and thanks, it is not that hard.
Some candidates are running on a platform of fear. Its not the message of the season.
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