To make room room for Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday as a national holiday, Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday were destroyed as holidays and in their place arose the stupid, meaningless holiday we call Presidents Day.
Who are we celebrating? Zachary Taylor? Martin Van Buren? Richard Nixon? Jimmy freakin' Carter?
The answer is yes to all four. Presidents Day is a celebration of all presidents never minding that many are not deserving.
Do we celebrate William Henry Harrison who accomplished nothing in his thirty days in office?
What about James Buchanan who did nothing to avert the Civil War (maybe the war could not have been avoided but Buchanan didn't even try to stop it).
Should we honor white supremacist Woodrow Wilson? Yassar Arafat's buddy Jimmy Carter? Corrupt Richard Nixon?
I guess we're supposed to on Presidents Day.
Meanwhile, the two greatest Americans--George Washington and Abraham Lincoln--continue to fade from public memory.
Jimmy freakin' Carter. What the hell?
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