AARP is really a racket - they portend to be a "friend of seniors" but they are really an ultra-left wing group. AARP is owned by United Healthcare. AARP sells Medicare supplemental insurance and as a “benefit” of membership, they have member travel discounts, pharmaceutical services, legal assistance, and long-term care insurance. They are however; more interested in politics than looking out for the senior citizens. Since 2007, AARP board members have given almost exclusively to Democrats, with more than 97 percent of donations going to Democrat candidates and left-leaning causes. None was given to Republican candidates during that time. Since Obama took office AARP has certainly been a friend of his. It supported his signature health care law despite gutting Medicare by $500 billion over ten years to help pay for Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid and taxpayer-funded health care to millions of Americans currently on private insurance or uninsured.

It also did not say a word when for the past two years, Obama’s misguided payroll tax holiday cost the Social Security trust fund more than $230 billion.
Of course, it is not immune to supporting big government when it’s a Republican doing it. It was instrumental in 2003 in urging Congress to pass George W. Bush’s Medicare Part D — i.e. the prescription drugs benefit — that many consider one of the primary reasons the program is teetering towards bankruptcy now.

If you join, you’ll be inundated by tons of junk mail – all leaning left or looking for your checkbook. I’m with others here and shred their stuff unopened.