What you have shown is that those who are calling themselves liberal, do not actually act as liberals. Those who call themselves Conservatives are actually closer to the spectrum of a Liberal as you describe. Sadly the truth more lie's in the Federalist vs the Anti-Federalist papers. One can describe this argument as the Key Stone of the problems we face today. All powerful federal government or not. One can see that the Federalist are now loosing the argument for winning.

Nice post!