There has been not one PEEP of objection to the continued waste of money by USAPA on legal fees to perpetuate the civil war with the west. That is tacit approval and the election results have consistently been to have more of the same.
If you had a group, no matter how small, who would stand up for the power of unity in a union and try to wrest power from the AFO club, then perhaps your argument would have some merit. That group, when combined with the west could have leveraged their power and overcome the USAPA juggernaut, secured real benefits for all the pilots and put us in a much stronger position coming into a merger.
Whether you want to believe it or not, the people the east allowed to run the show have hobbled this pilot group to the point where the US pilots are little more than observers, unable to affect any real influence over their destinies. The MOU was a rubber stamp to what APA wanted and a NO vote would not have given the US pilots any chance to improve the MOU. So the only other choice was a YES, more like YES, PLEASE.
You cannot distance yourself from the monster you created. But you can take responsibility and rehabilitate the monster by removing the children in office and replacing them with progressive, practical and pragmatic leaders willing to work WITH folks to IMPROVE the careers of ALL PILOTS.
