Jackson Jambalaya

I agree with Maher, but the truth is that the extreme right wing killed Halloween as a pagan holiday and not safe for children.
So, instead of Trick or Treat, it will again be "appropriate" costumes at a church or schools gathering.
And, one razor in an apple terrified all the right wingers so as to imagine that there were millions waiting to kill or poison children.

Crazy is crazy no matter if you give it a formerly respectable title or call in a political party!

Who thought Bill Maher and Elon Musk would become conservative heroes?

That’s why liberalism is a disease. They have to ruin everything that normal Americans enjoy. They scream cultural appropriation but liberals never look out the window to see other cultures who appropriate us, it’s all supposed to be fun but they are the only ones who ruin it.

I am very conservative and I do think people killed Halloween as a whole… religious leaders in particular. Stared in Ireland before it was all Catholic… they were pagan and Halloween is a day they celebrated. Today people use it for
Fun only

Yep, those evil religious conservatives. How dare they offer alternatives like "trunk or treat" in safe environments opposed to kids roaming in the street and receiving candy from strangers.

We have read numerous accounts of Fentanyl and other drugs disguised as candy. But people here say safe alternative are bad.

Because of the rabid media and the rise of social media, every social movement can be taken to the extreme. Political correctness which was at one time a suggestion as a way to avoid conflicts and animosity is now a constant drumbeat from those who would remind others of how ignorant and offensive they are. It has become a real pain in the ass.

Halloween is so 20th century. I want a PURGE!

So many people who we thought were weird can now go to social media and meet other weird people. When you get two or more weird people together, they suddenly decide the whole world should change to the same weird beliefs they agree with. Most of the time we can ignore them. It could be worse. You could meet someone who has looked on social media and couldn't find anyone as weird as they are.

Liberalism is a mental disorder

Candy is poison enough, now risk of fentanyl laced candy makes Holloween deadly. Give the greedy little pagans comic books or coupons for heathfood, instead.

" When you get two or more weird people together, they suddenly decide the whole world should change to the same weird beliefs they agree with".

That's exactly what Arlo Guthrie described as the start of a movement.

Liberalism is an adult acting like an adolescent. Example:

"Take care of me, give me everything I need so I don't have to think for myself. But stay out of my business and leave me alone!"

If an adult thinks/acts like this, then they are either:
1) Severely emotionally immature
2) Mentally ill

If a government or family keeps subsidizing their childlike condition, then society suffers with it. When the government and their families cut them off, either they find a job fairly quickly, or they most often end up in adult day care (i.e., incarcerated).

3:27...please don't start that $h!t....next thing you know they will classify it as a "disease," and we'll have to pay for it...

Porch light is on here at my house. Giving out broccoli florets this year.

Nobody should be getting “buzzed” on Halloween since there will be so many families with young children walking the streets at night. Please stay sober and save your drunkenness for Irish wakes and New Years Eve when decent folk can avoid you!

4:15 pm
There have only been TWO confirmed HALLOWEEN DEATHS of children EVER.

This has everything to do with typical overreaction by the hysterical in both political parties only because unlike when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's local news stayed local. We weren't cursed by politics 24/7 but just a few months every 2,4 or 6 years.

Churches were primarily places of worship, not the center of social life(except in isolated rural areas) and were not for entertainment purposes (other than religious celebrations and observance) and rites of passage.

We are seeing the results of " helicopter" parenting and not allowing children to engage in sports and activities where they learn to how to organize or be members of a team not run by adults.

I grew up when trick or treat was in neighborhoods where we knew our neighbors and neighborhoods where friend's knew their neighborhoods. Parents or older siblings accompanied us until we were older. There were so many people on every street, nothing ever happened.
The real predators are likely to be at YOUR events and attempt to select an adult with whom to build a trust relationship that will give them free access to your child. They can also just snatch a child walking home from school or to a friends because you know bother to know your neighbors anymore but simply huddled in conformity.

You also want to spoil Christmas by pretending there's a WAR on Christianity. Instead, you insist Christmas can ONLY be a religious holiday not available to those who want to join and embrace the spirit of giving and celebration. You ignore it was a pagan holiday that was incorporated into Christianity to attract more followers.
It's a time of the year when many religions chose holidays like in the spring because of the weather and nature of rural life. Those of us non-zealots would like to be able to wish all they greet,even strangers, with Happy Holidays without being branded by political and religious zealots.
You've left little space for those of us who are fiscally conservative and policy pragmatic. And those who actually enjoy engaging with good people of every race and religion and political persuasion ( as long as they are sane, good humored,ethical and honorable) are finding that hard to do given the meaness and violence being formented. We once learned from "others" more than new ways to cook food dishes!

You are afraid of anyone who isn't just like you in every way.And, ironically, it's your easy-to-mimic conformity that makes you a target for the mentally ill,criminals and every con artist. It's the latter who we should LOCK UP either in a jail or mental institution or like in the past you miss. Instead, you are isolating another generation of children from reality.