I was a card carrying member of the ACLU for a decade. Not necessarily because I agreed with them on everything--probably vaccine mandates are something I'd hav

I was a card carrying member of the ACLU for a decade. Not necessarily because I agreed with them on everything--probably vaccine mandates are something I'd have disagreed with their original stance. But they were an essential part of civil society in how they consistently advocated for civil liberties, even for the benefit of unpopular or unsympathetic causes. At some point their goals changed when they became an auxiliary arm of the Democratic Party. But why bother to support them when I can just give to the party directly?