Jimmy Dore maintains that a small group of wealthy elite, including the Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum, exert control over world governments regardless of which political party holds of

“well, I like how you and and there really is a a a cabal or a society of the halves, the uppests, as you referred to them in your book, that really do want to control everything and they've been doing it for a long long time.”

James Corbett contends that a network of elite globalists and oligarchs, rather than political parties, controls the global economy and governments through centralized authoritarian systems.

“I've heard you say it many times. You are exactly right. We do not live under political parties. There are oligarchs. That is who rules right now.”