[geremiiah]

Look, I'm not even a millionaire, and I will never be a billionaire, but in an alternate reality in which I'm a centibillionaire, one of my chief aims would be to limit the political say of the electorate as much as possible, because their voting rights would be one of the biggest threats to my everything.

Moreover, everyone who gains any amount of power becomes protective of it.

That's basic human nature. As a conservative, I under this.