Well they did send me a card for giving them a donation. I didn't ask for one they just sent me one as a thank you for supporting their cause of fighting injustice. Fighting injustice seems to be a full time occupation now for the ACLU because republicans in power are prone to denying basic rights to our minority populations and making it difficult to overcome their denials. Like the case in Alabama where republican officials have passed laws requiring specific types of legal identification and denying other legal identifications. They demand that the citizenry have driver licenses or valid non-drivers licenses as a hard copy identification.
When Alabama wanted to close most of the drivers license bureaus in predominantly minority areas they were thwarted by a federal investigation, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/politics/voting-rights-alabama.html. Now the latest form of repression comes in the form of voter purges. The reality that republicans are always in full steam ahead mode on denying voters their access to and ability to vote is the reason the ACLU is in a never ending battle to protect our most basic and fundamental right from being denied by republicans. If it isn't clear to you that making voting easier and much more desirable is the heart of what democracy is then you are not living in reality.
That any of us have to be a card carrying member of anything that has a never ending fight to keep our rights to a democratic society is the problem. Not the ACLU nor those others who fight for their rights, the trouble is the republican party which cannot win elections without taking rights away from those who cannot defend their rights. There is no sugar coating what republicans are and what they are doing. They are stealing our democracy and transforming it into an advantage and privilege paradigm which only serves the wealthy and powerful. I am a card carrying member of the ACLU and I can always find a few coins to give them to fight the good fight of protecting our rights from the republican party.
When Alabama wanted to close most of the drivers license bureaus in predominantly minority areas they were thwarted by a federal investigation, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/politics/voting-rights-alabama.html. Now the latest form of repression comes in the form of voter purges. The reality that republicans are always in full steam ahead mode on denying voters their access to and ability to vote is the reason the ACLU is in a never ending battle to protect our most basic and fundamental right from being denied by republicans. If it isn't clear to you that making voting easier and much more desirable is the heart of what democracy is then you are not living in reality.
That any of us have to be a card carrying member of anything that has a never ending fight to keep our rights to a democratic society is the problem. Not the ACLU nor those others who fight for their rights, the trouble is the republican party which cannot win elections without taking rights away from those who cannot defend their rights. There is no sugar coating what republicans are and what they are doing. They are stealing our democracy and transforming it into an advantage and privilege paradigm which only serves the wealthy and powerful. I am a card carrying member of the ACLU and I can always find a few coins to give them to fight the good fight of protecting our rights from the republican party.
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