Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Getting back to the topic of the DPA fight, this is like Gettysburg.
Probably more like Valley Forge. DALPA is playing the part of British soldiers quite nicely as they've far underestimated the ragtag DPA folks who don't stand a chance against the mighty crown.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The DPA may have even fought a hell of a battle up to now, but like the Confederate General, they don't have a map of this foreign soil they are about to fight on.
The fact that ALPA thinks of it as foreign soil is actually a major part of their problem. We think of them as foreign because they're so disconnected from us, and they think the same of us since we don't even understand the meaning of the phrase "our fair share of the flying."
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
ALPA may have screwed up and let the DPA within a couple days march to Herndon, but ALPA somewhere has maps. Those maps show where the high ground is ... unity.
ALPA has lost those maps Bar. You might be able to help them, but I'm afraid right now you would be considered just another foreigner.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Unity is there for the taking right now. The DPA has failed to sieze upon it.
DPA can't seize anything if and until they're voted in. ALPA
is in so they
could seize upon it. But ALPA refuses.
I like these history metaphors.
Carl