ALPA or any airline union for that matter has become a lame duck mostly because it only represents the interests of its highest paid pilots. No thought or care is given to future pilots that want to embark on this profession. This is a PILOT problem, not a union problem.
Here's a question? For all of you that supported age 65, did you care that ALPA and the other unions that voted for it were giving away their legal fighting power under the precedence that a pilot union has to always align its policies with ICAO standards? Did we fight for age 64 or age 66, no you took the past of least resistance and aligned your views with ICAO. Don't blame ALPA.