I watched a documentary on how the GOP got to be in the morass it has found itself. I am old enough to remember it started with Barry Goldwater. Before, and for some time afterwards, both parties worked together to make the necessary laws and to investigate when necessary.

            Here is where the GOP went off the tracks and put America into the divisive situation we have today. Goldwater was an Arizona Senator who helped to make reading the Constitution a requirement by any brown skinned person. He gave credence to the “Jim Crow” laws used in the South by racists. Lincoln may have been the first Republican President but the party spawned the Ku Klux Klan and kept racism going. When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the XXIV amendment and other voting laws the racist Democrats went to the GOP swinging the South to Republican.

            The Republican governed states are once again scared black and brown people might flip their states so they are passing laws designed to keep them from voting. The state’s officials claim it is to prevent voter fraud but they certified after the election there was no fraud and Trump lost.

            The Republican Party has become a racist party in fact, and no longer is trying to hide it. Their choice is to keep blacks and browns – oddly not Asians – from voting or leave their racist radical supporters. We know which they have chosen.