GOP and many Democrats vote against competition

Once again, what happened to those that used to talk about the US winning the Cold War due to our market competition? Those days of freedom and competition are sooooooo long ago and we are now the Soviet Union, content with no choice and rampant cronyism. At every turn, Congress votes to support their financial contributors, giving the shaft to freedom of competition and the American public at large. I have come to expect this from the GOP who have repeatedly supported Big Telco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, etc, but why are the Democrats also on board with this? Yesterdays vote was a bloodbath for net neutrality and now that it heads into a GOP controlled Senate, the writing is on the wall.

Sadly, I discovered that even my Democratic Congresswoman, Allyson Schwartz, voted against neutrality. I know that cable giant Comcast looms large in Philly and politicians seem to trip over themselves to cater to their every whim despite an awful track record of being good for consumers, so I hope that was not the reason why she voted so poorly. As an aside, it's not possible to use the online emailing system to ask questions to her probably because I'm overseas. I guess some of us are more equal then others.