[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

When I was younger and ignorant I was a member of AARP. Then I discovered that the President of AARP was working strenuously against my best interests. He was using the power of his position to agitate against Second Amendment gun ownership. We exchanged letters. In mine I pointed out that older people who were no longer physically able to defend themselves against criminals needed the advantage of gun ownership. He refused to change his position, and I dropped my membership.

I now know that AARP has a super left-wing political agenda and worked hard for the passage of Obamacare, against the majority opinion of its' own membership.

For decades I have been a member of AAA. Having traveled a lot, I discovered that hotel and motel discounts for AAA were the same as for AARP. I have not looked into home or auto insurance with AAA because I have been using USAA (originally only for military officers) for almost 50 years.

The Conservative alternative to AARP is the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC.) You might want to give them, as well as AAA, a look. Their web site is https://amac.us/join-amac/ .

Unless you are on the political left and simply want to support left-wing political positions, you might want to avoid AARP.

I agree........there might be discounts, there might be freebies, but I do like to know where my dollars are going and I've seen AARP dollars go to the locations mentioned above.