Attack on voting

[Angrboda]

I think you're wrong there.  The gop absolutely does want to lock in minority rule by disenfranchising opposition.  While they still can, they figure.  They don't think it's wrong to do, they think it's wrong to do -to them-.

Its a country for me, but not for thee.

This reminds me of some half-serious thoughts I've had about conservatism representing the trailing edge of human evolution while liberlism represents the advancing edge. Setting aside the appearance of mere partisan perspective, there appear to be some indicators that may support the notion. In general, as measured by things like Kohlberg's scale of moral development, conservatives seem to cluster lower on the scale than liberals. And from Jonathan Haidt's work we know that conservatives weight things like loyalty and purity higher than liberals do. It's not hard to make an argument that such values are better suited to small, isolated socieities than large heterogeneous ones. And when one looks at the "good for me but not for thee" split, one recognizes that their planning horizon and values are not supportive of more abstract principles such as Kant's silver rule or Rawls' framework for evaluating justice. Liberals, on the other hand, seem more capable of embracing such things.

Of course, there are things worth noting here. This may all be a matter of rampant partisan confirmation bias on my part. It may also be that any social group, when threatened, will retreat to these strategies and so it's not diagnostic of conservatism specifically. Still, I can't help but wonder.