Anyone who chooses to say Merry Christmas for political reasons passes the dickhead test. It (Happy Holidays)* is a very useful phrase: it includes both Christmas and New Year's (and this is, I suspect, it's original meaning - I doubt it was invented by some sort of PC mafia as the right likes to imagine), it is simpler in the sense that it includes those who may have other celebrations that are not Christmas, and, as an extra humanity bonus, it is polite both to those who share Christmas, and those who don't.
Anyone who chooses to say Merry Christmas for political reasons passes the dickhead test. It (Happy Holidays)* is a very useful phrase: it includes both Christmas and New Year's (and this is, I suspect, it's original meaning - I doubt it was invented by some sort of PC mafia as the right likes to imagine), it is simpler in the sense that it includes those who may have other celebrations that are not Christmas, and, as an extra humanity bonus, it is polite both to those who share Christmas, and those who don't.