Thank you so much. I thought that I was the only person on Earth that thought like this.
You are 100% right, but your beef with Santa Claus is only the tip of the iceberg.
Because the idea of Santa Claus is so deeply ingrained in our culture, it sends the wrong message about honesty. It sends the message that lying is okay if you're an adult and the recipient of the lie is one or more children.
There's also a segment of NORAD that has a Santa Tracker website. Here's the disturbing story behind it:
"In 1955 a young child, trying to reach Santa, dialed the misprinted phone number from a department store ad in the local newspaper. Instead of calling Santa, the child called the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, the commander on duty that night who answered the child’s phone call, was quick to realize a mistake had been made and assured the child he was Santa. After more incoming calls, Shoup assigned a duty officer to continue answering calls and a tradition was born, that continued when NORAD was formed in 1958.
Each year since, NORAD has dutifully reported Santa’s location on Dec. 24 to millions of children and families across the world. Because of the support, services and resources generously provided by volunteers and our government and corporate contributors, NORAD Tracks Santa has persevered for more than 65 years.
In fact, what started because of a typo has flourished and is recognized as one of the Department of Defense's largest community outreach programs.
Each year, the NORAD Tracks Santa Web Site receives several million unique visitors from more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Volunteers typically answer more than 130,000 calls to the NORAD Tracks Santa hotline from children across the globe. "
https://www.norad.mil/NORAD-Tracks-Santa/
