For What, Exactly, Am I Thankful?

While there certainly are things for which I am thankful, things that I don't take for granted, Thanksgiving itself doesn't turn on my tap of gratitude.  I love and appreciate my friends and family.  Even though I'm on the lower end of the middle class in this country, I'm extremely grateful that by world standards I am fabulously wealthy.  I have a great job that is often fun and puts food on the table and a roof over my family's head.  So what, you might ask, is the problem?

Simply stated, the holiday of Thanksgiving itself is the problem.  Here's why:

1. I'm thankful every day, not just when a holiday tells me to be.
2. I like turkey, but not enough to work so hard for it.  I actually like the side dishes better.
3. Someone gets disappointed if the meal is not traditional.  We should be able to have pizza and still have a great Thanksgiving.  I think some folks have misplaced priorities.
4. If it's really about being thankful, I get that and support it.  But what it seems to commemorate is the mass slaughter of millions of turkeys in order to misrepresent what actually may not have happened on the 1st Thanksgiving.  
5. And while we're talking about the first Thanksgiving, I need to get something off my chest.  I hate the Pilgrims.  Sure they were brave trailblazers, but let's be honest.  They didn't come here to be brave.  They came here because no one else wanted them.  They were self-flagilating, abusive, pejorative, bible literalists who were impossible to live near or with.  Not only would this have been a better country had they never been here, but their decedents and (slightly) updated ideas are responsible for much of what is wrong in our country.
6. Am I the only one who thinks the holiday feast is not only decadent, but wasteful?  Does anyone really need that much food?  Now I'm being pejorative, but I believe it's offensive to stuff yourself when people are starving.