the idea we need to export or celebrate more america is brainworm

I’m not. But if people in a local area are already doing it, like they are where I live, there’s an option to not participate by leaving the front lights off for a few hours. No one would want your high and mighty speech about your righteous non-participation if you were here.

You’re arguing that living in a place that has a tradition that makes kids happy, while I have no actual means or ability to leave, has some arbitrary ethical mandate for me to not make kids happy on one fun day a year where kids wear costumes and run around collecting candy because you disapprove of it?

The “invite” is just leaving the front light on, or decorating. You’re being sanctimonious in a way that kids around here would find hilariously lame. They’d be fine not getting candy from you, but the speech is just… stop.