Thanksgiving: Liberal Elite-Sponsored Federal Regulation

by Tony Chavira

... Crammed Down Our Throats!

In 1621, after the Mayflower carried over the good, religious pilgrims to the Plymouth Colony, and after an incredibly harsh winter which killed a distressing amount of their people, the harvest was absolutely bountiful. So bountiful, in fact, that the Pilgrims invited the local Wampanoag tribe to join them. After a traditional English harvest feast, Mayor William Bradford announced that the holiday would be called “Thanksgiving,” and the insidious idea was planted like a seed in the American psyche.

Why do I call it insidious, you ask? The answer is simple, my friends: because the politicians got ahold of it. You see, George Washington felt that the original thirteen colonies had no real cohesion, and practicing Thanksgiving was (up until that point) solely a holiday for New Englanders and other Northerners. Georgia was not going to have any of it, and neither were North or South Carolina until almost 1777 ... 150 years after Mayor Bradford’s proclamation! So in a blatant act of federal government decree, Washington proclaimed that Thanksgiving was (henceforth from 1789) a national holiday, first, ninth and tenth amendments be damned! That’s right, George Washington violated the constitution by declaring a religious holiday (i.e. a day to thank the Puritan God for what we have) after it was explicitly declared that the government should allow freedom of religion.

And Mr. Washington was perfectly fine overriding other days states and individuals had determined for themselves for Thanksgiving in order to mandate a federal holiday on the last Thursday of November. And for what? To conform to Massachusetts, of all states? What made them so special? What’s worse is that in his official speech announcing Thanksgiving as a federal holiday, Washington even asked that God forgive America for our collective transgressions. We know, as real Americans, that we hadn’t done anything wrong at that point. We were just protecting our way of life, and Mr. Washington is clearly an apologist.

That was when the capital was in New York City, so maybe it doesn’t count. I’ll let you be the judge. But the story doesn’t end there, my friends. Not by a long shot.

You see, one of America’s first feminist liberals, Sarah Josepha Hale, saw that even in the mid-1800s people outside of New England still didn’t want to celebrate Thanksgiving. In the American South, it was largely an unrecognized holiday and each Southern state had decided its own day to honor Thanksgiving. Some felt like doing it as early as October, some as late as January. And those states were well within their rights to choose the day and time they felt like being thankful for their bountiful gifts from God.

But no! Miss Hale, the East-Coast elitist New Yorker editor/poet who also happened to write “Mary had a Little Lamb” was unswervingly told by level-headed presidents such as Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and even Abraham Lincoln that federalizing Thanksgiving as an American Holiday was a ridiculous idea. But my friends, if there were ever evidence of a shadowy liberal dominance onto the will of the people it would be this: at the very conclusion of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln received a single letter from Hale, and it supposedly “convinced” him that Thanksgiving would be a great idea. Legislation was rushed through a very torn Congress and bam: Thanksgiving somehow joined July 4th and Mister Washington’s birthday as the only official federally-mandated holidays. That’s right. The feminists win again, folks.

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And yet, unilateral decisions over the people made by renowned figures in American history and the full-scale undermining of our personal freedoms by a liberal feminist thought leader are still not the scariest, most ominous or intrusive features of Thanksgiving. You see, sometime in the late 1930s, in the midst of World War Two, a secret meeting was held between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the de facto commercial, banking and manufacturing puppet masters. What did they want from Roosevelt, you ask? Well, aside from his everlasting soul, the same thing all dark and ominous shadow entities want: money. In this meeting, the puppet masters told their crony Roosevelt that it would be “good economics” to extend the holiday shopping season. They said it would be a boost on the economy, and to trust them. The same people who helped ruin the American economy just ten short years earlier.

And what did their puppet do? Of course, he tried to shift Thanksgiving to the beginning of November three separate times: once in 1939, once in 1940 and another time in 1941. Was Roosevelt trying to legitimately bolster the economy or was he weakly resigning to the wills of the shadow leaders of the American economy during a time when they could only use their consolidated money to gain more political power? I say, you be the judge. You can see right through this smoke screen. You get it. In fact, the Congress in 1939, 1940 and 1941 got it too. They said, “No way, Jose” and rigidly constrained Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of the month. The puppet masters may not have gotten exactly what they wanted, but they definitely weren’t mad that if there were a potential fifth Thursday (say, on a November 30th), there would still be a week’s worth of additional holiday shopping time for the little American lemmings to leap into giddily.

And naturally, the people in Washington DC are completely fine giving the puppet masters what they want while you and I accept Thanksgiving on November 25th this year and still have five days of this month to hand over our hand-earned money to greedy Wall Street fat cats for Christmas.

People in Washington DC don’t get it. You know it. And for the first time in my life, I have seen miracles happen: this country is actually being led, in part, by you. We the people are leading the blind in Washington. But some historians will continue to play politics and call you stupid. They will tell you that Sarah Hale is a good person, just a writer. But there are a lot of writers that have done a lot of damage and are responsible for a lot of people perishing. Karl Marx, for one.

Now, any attacks on me might claim that I’m just screaming “communists!” That’s not what I’m alleging in the case of Mister Washington. He’s not a communist or a Marxist. He’s not crazy—well, besides the cherry tree thing. He’s not a revolutionary—he didn’t free America on his own. He didn’t even free the slaves. He’s a serious intellectual.

So why is Tony Chavira going after him?

Because I’m one person who has been consistent. I’m against gigantic government. I believe that people make the best decisions. I don’t need to be “nudged.” I don’t need the Federal Government to make propaganda to push an agenda, regardless of the point in history. I don’t need thugs coming to my office or approaching me on the street to nudge me. I can make decisions for my own life. And if the government doesn’t like it, they can get the heck off my land.

A battle is being waged. You may be losing a lot of personal sovereignty today. Watch the price of turkeys. Watch the price of other foods this holiday. You will not be “nudged”; you will be shoved. And the highest price you’ll pay isn’t the extra pennies on a ridiculous sales tax. It will be in the loss of your personal freedom.

That’s what Thanksgiving has really meant: cramming an overbearing federal and economic agenda down our throats over the course of 400 years. Take a stand. Enough is enough.

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