POLSCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Alexis De Tocqueville, Leviathan, Barry Goldwater
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People who control power whose decisions have real consequences for people"s lives and fortunes. Not just business and government, it"s also the military. The liberal elite has held the white house, but not the military or wall street. Not an ideology but a rhetorical style and specific argument. Argument pits a corrupt and/or self-seeking elite against an aggrieved people . How did liberals become the elite and conservatives take over as champions of the. For mills, an elite controls the military industrial complex. They are able to realize their will, even if others resist it . This is what ike would come to call the military industrial complex. Military spending and adventures become an engine of economic growth in the. Us - the way it becomes central to economic recovery. How power in the us took on an elite structure. Of economic power in a few hundred large corporations and banks. Increasing dependence of us economy on an industrial military.
