Local officials in California are now issuing orders that would officially cancel Halloween. It is now within their power to dictate changes to traditions and even how people will behave. For example, officials in San Diego County, California issued orders to college residences in their area to prevent college students from engaging in Halloween parties. The orders were meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the student population.

“Know that our place on one tier or another is not based on the state’s assessment, it is intrinsically tied to our personal and common efforts,” Dr. Wilma Wooten, the County public health officer said. “The risk of contracting COVID-19 is increased when we come in contact with individuals outside our households. Every decision each of us makes should be guided by that knowledge,” she said.

This is just the latest move from local officials’ attempt at using government power to extend their control over the lives of ordinary citizens. Many Democrats have abused their power to extend lockdowns within their cities and states even though those lockdowns are damaging their local economies. They just want their cities to fail so that they can blame Trump.

In another example of just how far-gone California is, the California Department of Public Health mandated that families should replace “trick-or-treating” during Halloween with a “household candy hunt.” They shared their Holloween ideas through their official Instagram account. They listed the kinds of celebration scenarios that can happen and the alternatives for those.

The Democrats are very keen on controlling all the aspects of the lives of their constituents. They are now even dictating how people should go about celebrating important events, which is what authoritarian regimes do. That’s how it is in communist countries. People cannot really celebrate until they are told that they can. That’s exactly the same power that the leftists would want to have.