It isn't the "attack" on the commercialism of the season. It is specifically the "attack" on the religion, Christianity.

You are half way there, though. I can understand how it seems crazy to you. Not unlike how calling the United States a police state because of the Patriot Act would be crazy. Its about "heading down that road." That was essentially my point. I suppose you would have to first be a Christian to grasp the sense of urgency many of them so obviously feel.