The liberal class has ossified. It has become part of the system it once
tried to reform. It continues to speak in the language of technical
jargon and tepid political reform, even though the corporate state has
long since gutted the mechanisms for actual reform. The failure by the
liberal class to adjust to the harsh, new reality of corporate power and
the permanent war economy, to acknowledge its own powerlessness, has
left the liberal class isolated and despised. The liberal class has died
because it refused to act as if anything had changed. It ignored the
looming environmental and economic collapse. It ignored the structural
critique that might pull us back from the horrific effects of climate
change and a global depression. Our power elite and their liberal
apologists lack the ideas and the vocabulary to make sense of our new
and terrifying reality.
--Chris Hedges, "Death Of The Liberal Class", page 153
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