rp08orbust
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For all his faults and large death toll, I can't find it in my heart to say Lincoln was a bad president. I wish he would have followed Ron Paul's path instead of the one that led to our most destructive war. But whatever his motives, he did end slavery in the United States, preserved the Union and gave us the Gettysburg Address.
Beating your unsubmissive wife to within an inch of her life is not saving your marriage.
Just as there were other ways of ending slavery (like, say, not doing anything at all, allowing the free market to end it), so there were other ways of "saving the union" like, say, not doing anything at all. The US could have elected a horse as president and the union would have been saved and slavery would have ended.
It is absurd for Lincoln to get credit for "saving the union" when his fascist policies are what lead to secession in the first place. If Lincoln cared so much about preserving the union, he could have simply not signed the Morrill Tariff and let the Northern states pay for their own industrial stimulus packages.