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I'll save you some time.

Here's my read on Steven Argue's agenda.

Steven Argue's whole trip is based on dwelling on the thought that government and rich people are thoroughly corrupt and or spend money frivolusly and selfishly at the cost of the worker.

Therefore, Steven thinks, ANY union money-grabbing is justified because it is part of a greater workers' rebellion aginst the rotten elite.

His thinking is very black and white.

Steven has no problem NOT conceding the validity of any cogent argument against the UTU because he thinks no matter what the UTU does to get more money, it is justified. He has no problem with the issue that by having the bus system not running, the ENTIRE community is affected. In his mind, it is all justified because the bourgeosie is completely evil.

You will notice that he will NEVER concede any point, no matter how clear, if it menas admitting that the UTU is in any way shape or form, wrong. (However, just because I wrote that last sentence, it wouldn't surprise me that he may concede a small point, just to show how he really ISN'T completely inflexible.)

In a way, he's like how many see George Bush. Many see George Bush as someone who wants to bring down a corrupt social organism (malignant Islam) and has no problem drawing in involuntarily, directly and indirectly, the entire citizenry of the US in the service of his cause.

Similarly, Steven Argue is someone who wants to brign down what he sees to be a corrupt social organism (malignant elistist well-moneyed people) and has no problem drawing in involuntarily, directly and indirectly, the entire citizenry of Santa Cruz in the service of his cause.

It really goes against my grain to be so blunt and possibly even rude in this post, but I really see no alternative. The bluntness and rudeness of leaving 23,000 riders stranded over a few kopecks in the service of some hazy fanatical cause is so "in your face" that I see no other choice.