What is the Power Elite model? According to American sociologist C. Wright Mills to describe a relatively small and loosely knit group of people who tend to dominate American decision-making. This group includes bureaucratic, corporate, intellectual, military, and government elites who control major institutions in the United States and whose opinions and actions influence the decisions of policy makers (The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition). I believe that America's political institutions are controlled by the rich and powerful. If you take a look at our political parties and the people running for high-level positions, there is something that they all usually have in common: they are rich and/or come from wealthy families. Now you don't have to run for office to have political power in America, sometimes you can just donate a lot of money to a campaign and support a candidate. Another example of how the rich and powerful run America's political institutions is when billionaires supplant political parties; candidates are directly beholden to billionaires. And if and when these candidates win the election, the billionaires will be completely in charge (a new study proves that the US is controlled by the rich and who are they to say they work harder), so people who are not rich are not in a position to determine it. What gives them the right because they have money they can do whatever they want. Now this is not always the case because some have accumulated their wealth because it was handed to them by their wealthy family, I don't think they deserve to have the power because of that. There are people who are extremely hard workers and are not millionaires or billionaires and may never be and therefore have no right to have power