Letter: Democratic Writer Out of Touch With Reality

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To the Editor:

Let me start by saying that I have zero expectations that this will be published on iBerkshires because any messages against the favored leftist narrative are not allowed on your platform.

After reading his letter to the editor entitled "Contrast Between Parties," I'm struggling to determine if Michael Wise is merely out of touch with reality or if he's intentionally attempting to gaslight people. My guess is that it's the latter.

He claims that "Only one of our national political parties cares anymore about good government," and asserts that is the Democrats. Is our wide-open southern border an example of that "good government?" What about the skyrocketing inflation that continues to grip our economy due to the Biden admin's reckless spending? Or is the rampant crime and homelessness in blue cities now made worse by surging illegal alien populations? Or the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan? Or the spectacle of our clearly diminished president stumbling and bumbling through his presidency? Or is our affirmative action VP spewing another meaningless word salad while waiting in the wings for an obviously frail octogenarian to break a hip? Or the weaponization of our intelligence agencies and DOJ against political rivals? That's good government?

Then there's the biggest whopper of them all: President Joe Biden, like President Obama, is running a no-scandal administration.

A no-scandal administration? Joe Biden is facing an impeachment inquiry for the blatant corruption he engaged in with his son Hunter and his brother James. Polls show that 60-70 percent of Americans think that Joe is dirty. His family clearly took money from China, Ukraine, Romania, and others. That's the biggest of many scandals. What about his mishandling of classified documents which the special counsel labeled as "willful," only escaping prosecution because Hur thought Biden demonstrated diminished mental capacity? That's not a scandal? How about Biden's DOJ labeling concerned parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists? Are these not scandals?

I won't even get into the myriad of scandals from the Obama admin. Lois Lerner anyone? Fast and furious? Benghazi? Hillary's email server? Iran nuclear deal? Solyndra? The list goes on and on, no matter what Mr. Wise would like you to believe.

Mr. Wise assumes of course that the good Democrats of Berkshire County only consume news from the mainstream media aka the narrative-spewing lap dogs of the Democrat party like ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, etc. That's why they won't be able to determine that his letter is packed full of lies on their own. It's not a surprising tactic from a leftist like Mr. Wise. He knows he truly can't tout the Biden admin's accomplishments, because there are none, so he resorts to attacking the opposition while relying on the easily duped Democratic base to be uncurious about the facts.

Allen Jezouit
Chicopee, Mass, formerly of Williamstown

 

 

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Mount Greylock District Updates Williamstown Select Board on Equity Work

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The interim superintendent of the Mount Greylock Regional School District updated the Select Board on Monday on efforts to improve the culture in the public schools, including two that rely on American Rescue Plan Act funds supplied by the town.
 
Joe Bergeron was at Town Hall to talk about the middle-high school's participation in the U.S. Department of Justice's School-Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together (SPIRIT) program and a districtwide assessment of its process for responding to incidents of bias and bullying.
 
SPIRIT was a model similar to the DOJ's Strengthening Police and Community Partnerships program in which the town participated in 2022.
 
"The goal of the program is to convene students from many different aspects of life within a school building to come together and identify areas of interest both in terms of existing strengths they'd love to maintain as well as challenges they'd like to work on with the administration," Bergeron said.
 
Students worked in small groups with facilitators trained by the DOJ — mostly volunteers from the community, including social workers already trained in leading such conversations, Bergeron said.
 
"The types of things the students looked at included looking at how the school treats both clubs and co-curricular non-athletic groups along with athletic teams: Do they all feel they have equal funding and have time carved out to explore those endeavors? Do they have time to come back and make sure they have adequate time to make up for an exam or get work done if they miss [school]," Bergeron said. "They had things shared in ways that were constructive and reflective. The opportunity to spend time with peers is an eye-opener for people."
 
At the end of the day, DOJ representatives collected data from the various working groups to compile and inform an "actionable document" for the district, Bergeron said.
 
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