People often complain that Thanksgiving is supposed to be about giving thanks for what you have, not gorging on as much food as humanly possible. There is truth to this, but like most of the standard story of the holiday it is unaware of what really happened.

Thanksgiving's real purpose is a celebration of the failure and abandonment of communism, right at the very beginning of what would become America.

Can anyone think of a better way to celebrate the fall of communism than copious quantities of food?