Public rituals, like a certain holiday celebrated in the USA each summer, are used like many rituals to raise energy. And to attract energy, entities, etc. All the basic components of a ritual are there, music, candles (fireworks), and the psychic-emotional energy of the participants. Also, consider that the monuments and buildings of the cities in the country where such celebrations take place are modeled on ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman architecture.
So who is benefiting from these rituals? Who’s getting all this energy?
Remember intention is everything… Most off the people at these celebrations don’t share your view of Lucifer and think it’s the enemy, the father of lies and sin and ugly things, nothing to do with freedom or the country, so their intention doesn’t feed that through that avatar.
The energy goes where they will it. Mostly thier families and the goodwill for the country.
So I’m going with @Crown’s Columbia… That makes a lot more sense energetically and culturally as a good atavistic representative for the focus of peoples intent.