Joining

I BEGAN TO RECEIVE invitations to join AARP when I was forty nine. I declined, seeing as how I wasn't retired. The invitations kept a comin' for the next seventeen years, and finally, at sixty six, having been retired for six years, I joined. The price is right, and I like the magazine, and the benefits, although I haven't yet taken advantage of any of them. About fifteen years ago conservatives, convinced that AARP is too liberal, and thus evil, established a conservative version of a nationwide organization for older citizens, the name of which is something like "The Associasion of Mature American Citizens", which claims two point four million members. I got a copy of their latest magaine, the March-april 2022 edition, and compared it to the AARP publication. In the AARP mag, I could not and still cannot find a trace of information which indidates that AARP is "liberal", or that it embraces any political ideology at all. Nothing of a partisan political nature: nothing. In fact AARP does not endorse any political party or political ideology, and welcomes all members, liberal and conservative. I scanned each page closely, and found only some ads, and a fair amount of information which might be useful to senior citizens. The AMAC magazine I found to be, essentially, a diatribe against liberalism. Liberals want to either run the country or ruin the country, that sort of thing. Liberals have the audacity to want to eliminate the electoral college! The magazine, to a large extent, appears to essentially be a propaganda campaign against liberalism. This raises the question: How, exactly, does a political propaganda publication actually serve the needs of America's seniors? Trump's picture appears, at least once, one in which he and the director of AMAC are standing shoulder to shoulder, smiling. There are more words expressing hatred toward progressives than all other material combined. My question becomes: exactly how does this serve or provide assistance to older Americans? The AARP magazine provides information about how to better manage finances late in life, ideas for making the home a safer place, suggestions for healthy eating and fun forms of healthy exercise for older folks, all of which older folks would doubtless find helpful. In the AMAC mag? Only hatred of the radical left, by which it means, people who are not conservative. The definition of the "radical left" seems to be, among conservatives: "anyone who is not conservative". Donald Trump refused to accept his defeat for reelection, organized a violent mob in a fortunately failed attempt to overthrow the American government - and yet - remains the most popular politician among American conservatives and a potential Republican candidate for president in 2024. The AMAC, like the Republican party, is an organization of traitors.