For decades, the liberal class has been a defense mechanism against the worst excesses of power. It allowed for limited forms of dissidence and change, and served as a bulwark against more radical movements, offering an outlet for frustration and popular discontent, and discrediting those who posed a profound structural change. However, once lost its social and political role, the liberal class and its values ​​have become the object of mockery and hatred. The bankruptcy of liberalism has opened the door to the proto-fascists, and the pillars of the liberal class-the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and religious institutions-have collapsed. The poorer classes, and even the middle class, no longer have an effective counterweight, so the liberal class has become irrelevant to society in general and also to the elite of corporate power it once served. In this forceful critique Chris Hedges openly accuses liberal institutions of distorting their basic beliefs in order to support unrestricted capitalism, an absurd state of national security and income inequalities and redistribution of wealth unparalleled in recent history . For Hedges, the "death" of the liberal class has created a deep vacuum in political life, which are trying to fill the speculators, the promoters of war and the demagogic Tea Party militias.