the power elite first you got the corporations two you've got the state so the politicians and number three the military establishment these three bodies of the power elite perpetuate and feed off a permanent War economy always having a threat always having something that they could rally behind and point to as the boogeyman so amongst these three groups the corporations the state the military establishment it's very incestous big business started to infiltrate government in legitimate positions of power so you have like a CEO becoming a senator a senator retiring from office and then becoming working for Wall Street and it's kind of one big boys club they would drink at the same country clubs have unfiltered access to one another their kids would go to the same private universities the same universities that they probably went to