CCP joins War on Halloween

The Religious Right used to fight against Halloween year after year. These pushy fanatics used to cancel Halloween in schools all over America. In some schools, Halloween never returned.

But now we're facing new enemy combatants in this War on Halloween. The stated reason is not COVID-19, nor is it under the same guise as the battles of previous decades. Rather, it seems to be simply...because.

Schools in Seattle; East Lansing and Grand Ledge, Michigan; and Princeton, New Jersey, recently decided to cancel all Halloween festivities. They say Halloween events create too much noise. They say Halloween is too exciting, and that this impedes the learning environment. They say canceling Halloween will somehow increase attendance. They point out that not everyone celebrates Halloween - which is true, but there's also a lot of people who don't celebrate other events. When I was in school, I had no interest in school sports or dances, but I didn't ask for these events to be canceled. When I was a high school junior, a school pal said he did not celebrate Thanksgiving. We all respected that and moved on. The school did not cancel the holiday. School officials also say Halloween wreaks havoc on people with food allergies. I'm very sensitive to a wide variety of foods, but I wouldn't dream of abolishing Halloween because of it.

Halloween doesn't violate the spirit of inclusion or the mission of education any more than most other things that schools do - and take pride in.

At the New Jersey school, officials reversed their decision to ban Halloween, but schools elsewhere are doubling down. One is replacing Halloween with "thematic units of study about the fall." There are even rumblings that cities might ban Halloween even outside of school.

This has the Chinese Communist Party's fingerprints all over it. It has become clear since last year that our overlords either support the CCP outright or are willing to do its bidding. In addition to executing the War on Halloween, they have one thing in common with the right-wing religious zealots who have fought us in the past: They are not patriots. Appeasing a hostile foreign dictatorship is not what I call patriotism. We can also abandon any pretense that our rulers are liberal. Liberal Democrats such as George McGovern and Walter Mondale were staunchly opposed to authoritarian regimes, including those that claimed to be communist.

If the CCP wanted to intentionally gunk up our society, an effective way to do it would be to advance the War on Halloween. To the CCP, this is dynamite.

The idea that our "leaders" are vanguards of liberality is a complete joke. Their totalitarian, selfish policies lately strongly resemble juche - North Korea's official ideology. But they have some elements of the Taliban and Nazi Germany thrown in.

It's 100% fair to lump the nobility that runs our school systems in with the Religious Right - because they share the exact same goal of banishing Halloween from our communities. If the jackboot fits, wear it. And if it feels good, put it on.