Question

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?

Answer 1

Walt Whitman
Even though the question was speaking of more than one ruler; there was only one ruler that was named.