If the purpose of your message is to convince me to stop being libertarian, trying to explain how I'm actually in favor of bigger, more powerful government as your last paragraph does is a very ineffective way to do it. I'm in favor of breaking down big power structures, where ever they are.
As for the liberal's bete noir the CU decision, I'm pretty ambivalent. It would be far better to break up the big power pool the Federal government represents and thereby make capturing it less useful, then to try to make one big pool of power then insist that people try not to acquire it. The whole thing is the wrong question.
I'm explaining that calling out "a law against bribing the government" as "more government power to oppress the private sector!" illuminates the silliness of putting everything on a single axis.
I'm not trying to convince you to "stop being libertarian", I'm trying to convince you to stop being anything-ian. Get in the gray zone, man. It's where actual understanding or admitting that you don't understand happens.
Libertarians these days remind me of nothing so much as college marxists. It's all about theory and ideology, nothing about the real world.
As for the liberal's bete noir the CU decision, I'm pretty ambivalent. It would be far better to break up the big power pool the Federal government represents and thereby make capturing it less useful, then to try to make one big pool of power then insist that people try not to acquire it. The whole thing is the wrong question.