Read the excerpt from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's To the Oracle at Delphi.
Great Oracle, sleeping through the centuries,
Awaken now at last
And tell us how to save us from ourselves
and how to survive our own rulers
who would make a plutocracy of our democracy
in the Great Divide
between the rich and the poor
in whom Walt Whitman heard America singing
Who are the "rulers" mentioned in the text?
A. military officers
B. religious leaders
C. educators
D. The wealthy