The hypocrisy on both sides of this debate shows how disgustingly Machiavellian American Politics has become. The ends always justify the means now; no consist

The hypocrisy on both sides of this debate shows how disgustingly Machiavellian American Politics has become. The ends always justify the means now; no consistency of ideology is required. A party that hates regulating business suddenly sees the light when powerful businesses start removing them from the public square. A party that pretends to be for free speech and free journalism suddenly has a change of heart when it benefits them going into an election. A party that purports to stand up to big business suddenly supports the largest megacorps in the history of man because their interests are temporarily aligned. A party that thought Citizens United was terrible because it gave the rights of citizens to corporations suddenly cares very deeply about Twitter/Facebook/Google/Apple's freedom of expression when used to eliminate critical voices on their platforms. A party gets rid of the filibuster for judge nominations and then gets mad that they can't filibuster the other party's judge nominations -- or a party deciding it's suddenly ok to seat judges during an election. Both parties are about power. Neither party has any remaining principles.