You don't even seem interested in discussing the premise. You immediately interpret it as offensive and result to ridiculing some minuscule structural element of the associated Guardian article as a sweeping deconstruction of the thesis. You're not willing to have a sincere discussion, so I don't even understand why you're posting in this thread.
The different moral foundations are specifically defined. They are, if I remember them correctly: Care, Fairness, Liberty, Loyalty, Authority and Sanctity. Liberals tend to care about the first three
This shouldn't be surprising; conservatives are more likely to be patriotic
I'm pretty sure in his book the Righteous Mind he openly talks about how consideration for certain foundations can be bad and have been bad at certain points in history.
But honestly it feels like you're reading that into his argument because you disagree with it. All he's saying is that conservative parties are successful because they appeal to a wider space of moral concern; if anything, he's suggesting liberal parties do the same to capture more of the vote. There's no real reason why liberal parties wouldn't be able to do this, to snag more conservatively minded independents, and maybe even conservative voters themselves.
False--liberals tend to reject the last two--authority and sanctity. The first four are well-regarded on both sides of the political spectrum
Also, the whole there-is-no-god thing kind of nullifies "sanctity" as a moral foundation. In other words, it's not one.
If you're talking about patriotism in the traditional flag-waving jingoistic sense, I consider that pretty narrow and ill-thought-out.
I'm referring specifically to this essay. Does he not, in this essay, directly imply some kind of moral superiority over liberals just for clinging to these redundant, arbitrary, and bogus moral foundations?