Caudillo
A truly worthy post. I had often thought of the Pastor Niemoller passage when on the RYR thoughts thread, unfortunately this would have gone over the heads of most of the younger element of the pilot community, if there now exists any such thing, and would have led to sniggers all round, never mind the sort of opprobium those of the rightist viewpoint would issue forth. They would be the same rightists that are probably in line for the chop as some younger guy with cash in pocket wants to take their places. Then watch then bleat. In a dog-eat-dog world there is nothing more frightened or wary than an old dog.
Like it or not the only chance commercial aviation has at present is in putting its weight and collective thinking into BALPA and via it IALPA to sort this whole sh1t out.