And you&#x27;re replying with the standard statist fantasy.<p>Growing the federal government to protect us from all the evils of corporations is at least as naive an ideal as the libertarian one you are railing against, and moreover, presents a false dichotomy.<p>American government is likely more an oligarchy now than it ever has been.  So long as the policies are there that give the federal government influence, that influence will be exploited.<p>If we can accept that neither unrestrained corporate power or oligarchical control of government is good, then we should be able to accept that the solution is in some middle ground, and ideological appeals to either end of the spectrum is likely ill founded.