Further Evidence in Support of My Theory of the Crippled Spirit

Bear with me to the end of this. I have this theory about the labor movement that grows out of the following maxim: You can tell when an old person loses it, because they do not buy any new styles after the season of the onset of their losing it. This is my Gram's theory. She can tell - to the season - when someone drops out.

This theory applies, whole cloth, to the labor movement. But there's only one moment that occurred for thousands of people - The PATCO strike. Many in Labor never recovered from Reagan's firing of more than 11,000 air traffic controllers. And you can tell because a lot of people in labor still sport fashions from 1981, including a vast array of mustaches.

So whatever. I've had this theory for years, and occasionally (okay, weekly, in my line of work), I will meet someone, and think, Yeah, The Theory.

But then I get this update from a friend who was at the AFL-CIO convention:

What I'm sure you won't read anywhere else is that the convention closed with the playing of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'.' From John Sweeney to Journey.
Perhaps the oddest segue in AF of L convention history.

And the saddest.