Last week many people all over the world may have celebrated the Cinco de Mayo holiday, without really knowing why they were celebrating. The holiday is often mistakenly assumed to be the celebration of Mexican independence. But it is not linked in that way, and in Mexico, this holiday is not a major holiday as it celebrates a minor victory in a major invasion of the nation that led to Mexico’s loss of independence. This is a clear example of a holiday celebration that has lost any semblance of relation to its original cause; now it is a celebration just for fun, but in recent years the Left had sought to politicize the holiday.