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Yep, until the average AMA member learns to truly embrace America’s vast individuality that freedom was meant to provide and openly and clearly denounce the “highway or my way” egotistically overbearing and controlling mindsets that is all too often ingrained within…people will often take the highway…seen it over and over again…a real shame considering all the really good people within the AMA that truly are about promoting and enjoying the hobby instead of pushing their personal agendas…however they have rationalized them…
AMA should have only one goal…promote Model Aviation…the rest will take care of itself but if we are going to be overly concerned about promoting just the AMA…the future is certain…
I think the incidence of AMA members learning to truly embrace America's
vast individuality that freedom was meant to provide, etc, etc is probably greater than the incidence of Americans in general embracing the same things.
Your comment sounds good, but so do a lot of political sound bites.
I have yet to see any AMA document, policy or person that is training folks to be of closed minds and non-inclusive. Those things come from the individual and not from the organization.
I think that if the AMA sent out a plea requesting that all members remember at all times to engage prospective members, guests, new pilots and other folks in only positive ways, it would likely not change much..the folks with antisocial problems would still have those problems and the folks that know how to behave politely already know how to behave.
There is ample evidence that the AMA promotes model aviation as well as the organization itself...All it takes to see that is an open mind and the willingness to do a little research.