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