You've got to love these little psych experiments like DPA. If pilots expended half the wasted DPA -type energy on participating and improving ALPA we would be far better off mostly because it would cause more pilots to be more realistic about the challenges we face. Pilots think they know all about things whether they are actually encumbered by any actual experience doing it and we hate politics. Well, too bad. As DPA and its carcass prove politics are inevitable and herding cats is not easy.