"Michels stressed several factors that underlie the Iron Law of Oligarchy. Darcy K. Leach summarized them briefly as: "Bureaucracy happens. If bureaucracy happens, power rises. Power corrupts." Any large organization, Michels pointed out, has to create a bureaucracy in order to maintain its efficiency as it becomes larger — many decisions have to be made daily that cannot be made by large numbers of disorganized people. For the organization to function effectively, centralization has to occur and power will end up in the hands of a few. Those few — the oligarchy — will use all means necessary to preserve and further increase their power."
"This process is further compounded as delegation is necessary in any large organization, as thousands — sometimes hundreds of thousands — of members cannot make decisions via participatory democracy. This has to date been dictated by the lack of technological means for large numbers of people to meet and debate, and also by matters related to crowd psychology, as Michels argued that people feel a need to be led. Delegation, however, leads to specialization — to the development of knowledge bases, skills and resources among a leadership — which further alienates the leadership from the rank and file and entrenches the leadership in office."
Interesting read. Regardless, the elites need to hear from Trump and the Deplorables. We still have a voice and we're getting louder.