That fortress mentality permeates ACPA (and our pilot group) so completely they think they are the dog and the rest of the world is the tail. But every now and again an issue like this comes along that clearly demonstrates the reverse and we just cannot accept it.
ACPA loses most fights it engages in, and it engages in a lot of them. They lose because years ago they cut themselves off from the rest of the world in the belief they can do better going it alone. History proves them wrong because while we sit in smug satisfaction at how good we are the world keeps on going without us. We are the mennonite colony that can't understand why everybody else isn't driving horse drawn buggies.