Eric Hass (Socialist Labor)
But out of these two, Goldwater.
Why would you not have voted for Johnson?
I would have had reservations about Goldwater because he was against the Civil Rights Acts. I am not a liberal, but I don't think that basic rights for all Americans is a conservative-liberal issue, and I think it was absolutely necessary at that time to make the first steps toward ending systematized discrimination, against the spirit and word of the constitution, against blacks. Despite my dislike of Johnson and the Democrats, I would have been reluctant to vote for a candidate who did not seem to understand this.
I think Goldwater would've made a distinction between discrimination by the government and discrimination by private individuals. I know I would.
I would too, and the Civil Rights Act were passed to do away with government-sponsored and supported discrimination or discrimination in public accomodations. I don't think there's too much that can be done about discrimination in private life, nor should there be.
Alas, all sorts of freedom-reducing attempts have been made to do just that.
