That looks like the author is not saying "they'd rule themselves wrong", they're saying "they'd rule me against my wishes by voting conservative reactionary and ineffective laws into my life"
The feeling is probably mutual, for what that's worth -- as evidenced by the first amendment and a wave of religious-freedom restoration acts.
Postscript.
You'd think a little geographic diversity and a federal system would let people let each other live in peace but instead we have national culture wars.
