I guess I've always just thought that the problem with the holiday isn't people sitting around eating turkey so much as the nationalistic mythos we've attached to it and the way it's used to indoctrinate the young. I'm unfamiliar with calls to abolish the holiday outright; I was responding directly to Sage's comment as opposed to any broader idea about the holiday. It a good idea, but I'll be honest and say that I probably won't be able to let go of my personal nostalgia of the holiday and my desire to be with my family on this day.