We live in the cockpit

It's not so different from an F-16 cockpit. It's a bubble. It's a small world. Limited horizons give rise to unrealistic comparisons. We say we want things as they were. At LEAST as good as contract 2000. We live in a dream world. Outside of our dreamworld is a country with 9.6% unemployment (the highest in living memory for most of you) and that's not counting the skew factor that does not account for the prematurely retired, the underemployed, those fully employed but at significantly lesser wages. On my block, an ex 200K+/per year contractor now works in the kitchen department at Loews for 38K a year. A one time top manager of the Virgin Megastore in Manhattan is still underemployed after two years. My wife just got laid off. I don't think my neighborhood is too different from yours.
Our tactics of holding a hard line is also compromised by the unemployed ranks of ex-USAir, Gemini, Polar, World, Champion, Sunjet and a host of other  highly qualified pilots ready to jump into our job. They owe ALPA nothing. ALPA did nothing for them. Add to that the regional contenders who, thanks to ALPA embracing the "technology fo technology's sake" philosophy in pilot training are able to move straight into an Airbus in a matter of weeks, and you have a recipe for disaster. Remember, day one of a strike is as good as it gets. Management's position only strengthens with time, as code sharing, line crossing, hiring, all  conspire to ease their pain.
So my point is: If the offer on the table is better than what we have now, let's look at it with an open mind instead of dismissing it out of hand. Most people I have spoken to have taken the union's word for how onerous an offer it is. Most people I have spoken to have not actually read it!
Read it. Urge your representatives to work with, as opposed to against their counterparts in management.
This is YOUR company. This is YOUR future. Don't screw it up.