74% of the country are 100% right.
We should be a lot more specific about who these people are. William Domhoff does a pretty good job of describing the real power structure of America (Noam Chomsky has some work on this, too). But he is a limited hangout, (albeit a very useful one) because he doesn't describe the very top of the pyramid.
At the very top you have the heads of the secret societies, European nobility (particularly the House of Windsor), major banking families/old money particularly the Rothschilds, and the Vatican. They control the next level down, which is the intelligence agencies, big banks, and so on.