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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Letter: Vote Yes on School Budgets as Presented

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Please Support the School Committees' Budgets as Presented.

In the privacy of a voting booth, we elected our school committees to keep a broad perspective of our communities' educational needs. I believe that as townsfolk we have the responsibility to respect their research, their deliberations, and their often soul-wrenching decisions regarding how best to attain excellence in our schools within the limits our communities can afford.

Sometimes we may disagree with committee recommendations, but unless circumstances are clearly extraordinary, considerable weight should be given to the fruits of the committees' labor. Their views are broad; they must consider their principle charge of attaining student excellence within the context of local, state, even federal spending, over which they have little, if any, control.

Many comments have been made in this forum and others citing the serious shortcomings of Williamstown's town meeting form of government. Many find it downright undemocratic. Often concerned citizens in our community wish to attend our usual once-a-year meeting, but for excellent reasons cannot. In a town that often professes to value “every voice heard,” a motion from the floor to substantially change the carefully-deliberated product of an elected committee further undermines the democratic process. One can have similar comments about Citizen Petitions. But that is a discussion for another day.

I strongly urge you to support those who are willing to do the challenging, time consuming, and often unrewarded work of serving on our committees. Please support the school budgets as presented.

Donna Carlstrom Wied
Williamstown, Mass. 

 

 

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