I believe our political officials are the elite of our society today in the United States. I believe this is true according to Mills stating, "The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized, executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered, and now enters into each and every crany of the social structure." With that said, from my perspective is how once our political aspects of our society was weak and unruly of other elite powers. It is now that our political leaders and decisions have made up for what they were accounted for and have provided the back-bone of America today. Our government is what establishes America's decisions. Although some consequences can be made from what their previous aspects were, and how some of the decisions have made distrust in the government from Americans, it is only with said that, "Their failure to act, their failure to make decisions, is itself an act that is often of greater consequences than the decisions they do make." It's not necessarily the cause and effect of their decisions, but the act of speaking for America and doing something about the complications that arises within our world and our country to do the best they can to provide security and freedom even though there are limitations to freedom for security. Mills has stated, "The assumption that the security of the nation supposedly rests upon great secrecy of plan and intent." Along with the statement, "With the wide secrecy covering their operations and decisions, the power elite can mask their intentions, operations, and further consolidation." I believe Mills is pointing out the directive of our national security being in the hands of the political officials because the government is the elite officials of America and has the authority to reach beyond the limits of other powers. Some may say the military is the elite of