[Rick.Donaldson]

Democracy requires consensus-building and shared values. But in tribal societies, politics is viewed as a battle of all-against-all, in which the strongest tribe openly appropriates the state apparatus to enrich itself at everyone else's expense.

WHAT? A TRIBE is a socio-political organization of families, clans or groups of people sharing a common ancestry. Tribal societies don't necessarily go all-against-all, and in fact many of the South American Indian tribes that still exist, CO-EXIST peacefully as long as one does not raid the other, or commit some "sin" against the other. Then the tribes call for action and generally both the offending tribe and the one the offense was committed against AGREE on the method of punishment......

[BGHater]

I concur, here[Slightly off Topic, okay alot] is an example from Ancient Peru.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthScience/The_mother_of_all_civilisations/articleshow/2625053.cms