There’s a lot of economic misery out there, represented in new research “commissioned by digital wealth management company Personal Capital” that suggests one-in-four Americans are skipping Thanksgiving because they can’t afford it.”
In 2021, researchers note that an IPSOS survey found that nine in 10 Americans planned to celebrate Thanksgiving. This year, the new poll of 1,000 people found that number has fallen to just 74 percent. In fact, 47 percent say they’re celebrating “Friendsgiving” because of its more budget-friendly menu. Specifically, just 24 percent of Friendsgiving celebrations will even have a turkey on the table, with 33 percent opting for a pizza instead!
Friendsgiving is the Marxist Identitarians’ squeeze to get faith out of the holiday. But you don’t need faith or family because a friend gathering is no different. The point is to give thanks for what you have and for each other, related or not.
I imagine that’s something you could do over a Zoom meeting. Everyone has their bowl of microwaved Kraft Mac-N-Cheese ready and a bottle of YooHoo!. At the appointed time, y’all log in for five minutes to “eat together” and say hello.
Someone will lag, and everyone will remember the lag from last year.
Festive, and don’t forget to thank the eavesdropping NSA.
With many Americans struggling with higher prices at the grocery store, 52 percent are asking guests to bring a dish to Thanksgiving dinner. Three in four are asking guests to bring their own alcohol, while just under half (46%) are asking people to provide the dessert. Another 42 percent are going a step further, asking their friends and family to help pay for the big meal.
Not sure how it works in your family or “people circle,” but we don’t show up anywhere without something. You bring a bottle of wine, a six-pack (both), a salad, dessert, or something!
Maybe we can call it Bidensgiving (it’s really Biden-taking) and line up with the illegal aliens and homeless vets at the local soup kitchen.
Overall, 45 percent of the country say they feel financially stressed by Thanksgiving 2022. Gen X Americans have the least amount of stress (33%) while Gen Z is feeling it the most (54%).
As a culture, it’s essential to understand that giving thanks for what you have, meager or not, is an integral part of the humility and gratitude you should embrace being in America. Most of our ancestors did more with much less to get us to a place where folks whine on social media about whether anyone cares about how many genders they were this week.
The culture is a bit whacked.
But the Holiday shouldn’t be. Just ask Charlie Brown. Popcorn, jelly beans, buttered toast, pretzels, and ice cream sundaes. It’s not about the food. It’s about the friends, and the family, and giving thanks.
In other words, unless you want to thank the Democrats for record-high inflation, soaring energy prices, food shortages, rolling blackouts, and devaluing the dollar (and some of us did by not showing more of them the door on November 8th), be thankful for the opportunity to get another shot at fixing the political climate.
It’s the only “climate” that threatens America and the world, and we still have free speech (sort of) and all that.
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Happy Holidays!
