Selling-out principles, just because others have done-so, is properly called "race to the bottom", but in the moral sense.
This is exactly why there is no point, whatsoever, in pretending that political motivation will ever be good-enough: integrity has to outrank political-motivation, XOR the result is fucked, guaranteed, even though it may take some time to get there.
Just downvote this bitter old one, since what I'm saying is unacceptable on all sides/variants of the political-motivation landscape.