No amazement involved at all. +1 magooch. What else is involved? Hoards of people who collect special interest money? Political favors? A force better funded than the military? Or just the same tactics that communism has used in the past to unite socialist workers? I still remember the workers party voting slogans in Italy "lotta communista" (vote communist). Its been abouit forty years since I've "red" anything in the communist manifesto, but IIRC uniting the workers party was in there somewhere. There's a fine between better working conditions, and working for the gov't/people as a conglomerate of sociolist unity.