Indeed. Invariably, this comes down to whose ox is being gored, and if it degenerates to that level, then politics gets a lot nastier - when government usurps too much authority, it becomes a matter of life or death to win the elections or whatever means are used to take control of the government, if only to prevent your side from being the ones who are censored and banned, and to turn it against the other side as a matter of survival. Eventually, with being in power becoming a matter of survival, any means necessary to get power is going to be seen as legitimate. That's the end result of political power being used to enforce morals or group privileges.