Libertarian Civil War Theories

In a world where Rand Paul, America’s greatest defender of civil liberties, not only employs a key adviser with a sideline as the “Southern Avenger” but defends it as a youthful discretion like smoking pot or making a woman worship Aqua Buddha, it is hardly surprising that libertarians would be fighting their own civil war over the meaning of the Civil War. Because you see, leading libertarians think Abraham Lincoln was the greatest dictator in American history. They claim to be opposed to slavery but the far worse crime is the federal government doing anything to stop slavery. Because the market would naturally have freed those slaves, as any southern planter making gigantic profits in 1860 would have told you.