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One thing that seems crystal clear about this nation these days is that people like to complain.  Everyone wants to whine about how unfair the system is to them.  They just can’t catch any breaks in this world.  It doesn’t matter which side you align yourself with.  You will find a way to moan and bitch about the state of the world.

And hence I have drafted a proposal to make Festivus a national holiday.  This would provide Americans with a day to air all their grievances.  We can create an online store to creates memes to illustrate the hardships and gripes of each and every American.

It Could even be like the Purge.  Instead of having a single day to kill anyone you like.  You can utilize this day to get everything off your chest.  After you get that load off your shoulders, it will be easier to wolf down some meatloaf and perform feats of strength.  We can gather around a barber pole or a stripper pole pending your personal predilection.  Everyone has something to complain about so it would certainly benefit the economy.  The cards and memes for sale would be epic.

It would also be good to make Boxing Day(also Henry Miller’s birthday) into a National Holiday.  Nobody is accomplishing much on the day after Christmas anyway so why not make it a holiday?  It would be a great way for Americans to have an extended holiday run.  You could just proclaim Festivus, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day as national holidays.

I do propose some amendments to Boxing Day, however.  First off, since it is Henry Miller’s birthday, we should make sure that everyone reads some banned and/or prurient literature.  Anais Nin is an acceptable substitute.  

Also, to simple have officers and enlisted men trade roles for a day is not applicable to most of American society.  What I propose is that we use Boxing Day to piggyback off of Festivus. 

Since everyone will air their complaints on Festivus, we can use Boxing Day to allow people that complain about each other to then trade places with each other for the day.  We can follow that age old adage of walking a day in the other person’s shoes before condemning them.  It might make for a kinder, gentler nation if we saw what the other person endured.

This would make for a 4 day healing period for our nation.  It would come in the last month of the year so it would set us up better to have a real chance of making New Year’s Resolutions that might actually stick. 

I get that this is a far fetched proposal.  Like most people, I will be casting a portion of my Festivus grievances on the people that would have the authority to actually make it law and make it happen for real.  Knowing in whose hands the fate of this proposal lays leaves me with little hope.  I had also noticed that the day before Festivus is usually the Winter Solstice.  Would I really be pushing things to far to expand my proposal?  I suppose we can still dream.