Real democracies and ethnostates

Kirkpatrick Sales makes the argument ("Chronicles" April 2018) that only small-scale democracies can be real democracies, where laws and decisions are made directly by the people. Sales says that a Republican government such as the government in Washington DC where 535 people in congress with an average of 759,000 constituents is not a democracy. Sales would like to see a series of secession's of states into manageable sizes where real democracies can have real rule by the people themselves.

Human nature is essentially kin and ethnic centered, and group selection provides the best means of successful survival and reproduction. Human nature has been this way since humans became humans (and even before that). So if any small or large state wants to have longer-term stability it needs to be more than democratic, it needs to be an ethnostate with real biological homogeneity. Cultures are created from the distinctive traits of the ethnic groups who create the cultures as they adapt to whatever environment they find themselves living in. One size does not fit all, so real democracies, which may be one of the best forms of government, won't alone create longer term order.  (And representative government could be more practical if lobbies were curbed, as they should be.)

This is an unmentioned political reality that needs to be mentioned regarding real democracies and ethnostates. Perhaps that will be the next book by Sales.