The Prophets of Doom

I do not see any great social advance or 'progress' in the democratisation of power. This is because, as is the thesis of my last book, in practice democracy is not only a delusion but also impossible.

Power necessitates an organised minority ruling over a disorganised mass and, if 'elected', represent neither the will nor the interests of 'the people'.

Liberal democracy provides a smoke-screen for the ruling class and obscures the real mechanisms of power with the lie that 'the people' are sovereign: they are not and never will be.

--The Prophets of Doom, Neema Parvini

стоит обратить внимание на scare quotes

see also Iron law of oligarchy by Robert Michels

There are two key features of Ibn Khaldun's work that would later prove infuential. First, recognition of what we would call today 'in-group preterence' or 'group feeling' that helps keep a people, community, or nation together-we will see something of this when we come to consider Gobineau in Chapter 4 and it has been particularly influential on Turchin, who is covered in Chapter 12. 'A group with high [collective solidarity] will generally win when pitched against a group of lesser [collective solidarity]'. --Ibid.

нет ли тут... сами знаете чего. см. также morality of groups ну и Kevin MacDonald ясное дело.