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This to me is the biggest hypocrisy of this nation. As a secular nation, we should not have religious holidays as official state holidays. It completely flies in the face of the Establishment Clause.
However, we SHOULD have election day as a national holiday. It's the most important day in the world's most importand democracy and yet 40% of the voters do not participate, many because they either cannot get the time off to vote (because many people work far from their polling stations and lines are too long to vote during lunch breaks) or because they simply don't see the value in their vote. Shouldn't election day be a national holiday where everyone has the day off so we can truly have a participatory democracy?
Christmas is a uniquely American holiday. It was basically abandoned by the rest of the world, but we needed something to celebrate, and Christmas was a good one to do that.
Christmas is religious in origins, yes, but much like Thanksgiving its much more about getting together with the ones you love and the ones you haven't seen all year.
Election day should be a national holiday, like I think that the Monday after the superbowl should be a national holiday, but it is what it is.
Most of the people I know, even Catholics, don't go to midnight mass on Christs Mass.
I really don't care about "religious" holidays anymore since when was the last time "Christmas" was about "Christ"?
As for the Elections? It is mandated in some nations and you could be fined or jailed for not participating! I have personal qualms about this can you imagine all of the American Idol idiots or rednecks voting?
This to me is the biggest hypocrisy of this nation. As a secular nation, we should not have religious holidays as official state holidays. It completely flies in the face of the Establishment Clause.
However, we SHOULD have election day as a national holiday. It's the most important day in the world's most importand democracy and yet 40% of the voters do not participate, many because they either cannot get the time off to vote (because many people work far from their polling stations and lines are too long to vote during lunch breaks) or because they simply don't see the value in their vote. Shouldn't election day be a national holiday where everyone has the day off so we can truly have a participatory democracy?
What do you care about the value of a vote? Your's is being thrown away on someone who has no hope of winning at all. A vote for Gary Johnson might as well be a vote for Big Bird. It's pointless. And so would turning Election Day into a holiday.
You could give some people all the time in the world to vote and some people just won't do it. If they don't care enough about voteing to figure out a time where they can vote and they have to have a celebration or party in order to get them to the polls, then maybe they need to sit it out anyway. You would have a bunch of drunk or hungover people choosing our president.
Religious holidays are a wonderful thing even if you are not religious. It is a time to be with family and friends and strengthens love and relationships. Elections are not a family thing and I don't know anyone that takes their friends into the booth with them. Turning it into a "holiday" doesn't make sense. There is no hypocrisy involved in religious state holidays, Scrooge. Bah humbug to you.
3. Neither should be a national holiday
4. Both should be a national holiday
5. States should decide
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