Goldwater might have been wise to question the obligation system in which civil rights were couched. Free association rights while also forbidding government support to enforcing policies that were not race blind, would have let the cream of racial harmony rise to the top. Love that isn’t voluntary is not love, it is a cheap, low hypocrisy. And our modern “gay marriage” is teaching that to us.
Goldwater was an idiot. Those who oppose civil rights are intellectual dwarfs.