I have written a number of times about Power Elites and their control of the United Sates economy and local and national governments. One of my information sources is the website of G. William Domhoff, a professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He and associates have published a new article on structured networking of the Power Elites that is worth looking at.
Members of the oligarchy have numerous opportunities to meet and evaluate each other on political views, competence, and power. It is at this level that the agenda of the United States is formulated.
We are quite possibly in the midst of a changing of the guard at the national level as failed economic and diplomatic policies have become too obvious to ignore. The failed push to make Larry Summers head of the Federal Reserve and the failed attempt to start a war with Syria are symptoms of that failure.
When you look at the news, it appears as if President Obama and various Senators and Congressmen are driving policy. They are merely players reading a script prepared by others.
