Near as I can tell, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has become a lapdog for Social Justice Warriors. In other words they are spending their efforts fighting issues that don't matter to most people. To be sure, those issues no doubt mean a great deal to the people who are contributing cash money. That's fine, that's what they want to worry about, I'll let them.
But there are any number of other issues that are more serious and are screwing people over left, right and center. With that many problems you'd think someone would have started an organization to pick up the slack.
There might be one, but evidently I'm not holding my mouth right, because five minutes on Google turned up nothing that looks like it might be a serious alternative to the ACLU.
I wonder if it might be because people outside of the ACLU's echo chamber tend to think in terms of personal responsibility and aren't prone to making donations to anybody, especially someone who is going to spend the money on lawyers.
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What are the "issues that are more serious and are screwing people over left, right and center."?
Usually when that happens the problem is laws/rules from government, so how do you fight that without lawyers, Charlottesville, DC January 6th?
But you're right money talks, complaining walks.
Off the top of my head, overcrowded prisons, lumping the crazies in with the criminals, civil asset forfeiture, inflation (though I'm not sure that one could be fought with lawyers), wrongful prosecution, prosecutors who ignore serious crimes, our overworked criminal justice system, everything to do with illegal drugs, the homeless camped out on city streets.
The only one I am aware of is FIRE: https://www.thefire.org/ But FIRE is obviously more limited in scope compared to what you would expect the ACLU to be.
You might want to check out the blog I Want A New Left.
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