Hope For Changes On Valentine’s Day

On Valentine’s Day we are programmed to express love via cards, flowers, chocolates and various other gifts.

The commercialized celebration ranks with Christmas in terms of providing sales volume to merchants.

The historical roots of Valentine’s Day are vague, with some tracing it to the festival of Lupercalia celebrated in ancient Rome. Others allude to martyrdom of saints named Valentine, one or more of whom met tragic ends.

The holiday is said to have taken off toward its present form in the U.S. and the United Kingdom as early as the 1840s.

Regardless of the historical details, I hope you and yours are enjoying today, with appropriate expressions of love.

Contemplation of this holiday has me thinking not of material gifts, but rather things I’d love to see transpire.

Here is one man’s list of things he would positively love to see occur:

• Joe Biden acting as if he were aware of important realities, like which day of the week this is.

• Politicians of all stripes putting the country above party.

• Johnstown spending federal and state handout money for actual economic development, not merely putting spats on a pig and enriching the nonprofit elites.

• The end to the obvious politicization of our justice and legal systems.

• All the Soros-backed Marxist district attorneys and judges cast from office in a wave of electoral righteous indignation.

• Media outlets rediscovering that journalism is reporting the facts and is not propagandizing and indoctrinating.

• Public schools and institutions of higher learning returning to educating and not propagandizing and indoctrinating.

• Financial markets return to some form of fundamental sanity, escaping the algo-driven excess that saw shares of Lyft soar 60 percent and then crash Tuesday when a company earnings release contained a typo proclaiming a margin increase of 500 basis points (5 percent) as opposed to 50 basis points (.5 percent).

• Someone, anyone, plugging the sieves that are our southern – and northern – borders.

• A legitimate election and appropriately fair vote counting this fall.