What is this subs opinion on Barry Goldwater?
I read Conscious of a Conservative my senior year of HS, and I was curious. I read Goldwater’s autobiography shortly there after and developed a great admiration of him. It was 1998 when I heard Ron Paul speak for the first time, and felt he was the closest thing I saw in person that was very similar to Goldwater. Goldwater’s reputation was ruined by LBJ as he was labeled a war hawk who wanted to get up into further escalation in Vietnam, hence the “Daisy” ad campaign, but Goldwater had no interest in escalation, he wanted to finish it and come home. Socially speaking Goldwater was an early adopter of Civil rights, and voted no on the Civil Rights Act introduced in 1962 on constitutional grounds, but voted in favor of the 1964 CRA. He was the first businessman in Arizona to fully integrate his stores in the 1950s and was a member of the Arizona NAACP.. Ron Paul will forever be my spirit animal of libertarian consciousness, but Goldwater is held in very high regard to me as a principled conservative who didn’t trust the church or other politicians. He was the most principled political person outside of Ron Paul I can think of. submitted by /u/kam516 [link] [comments]
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