Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, argues that American democracy has been hollowed out by corporate power, and this film builds its case around his book "Death of the Liberal Class." Interviews and archival footage trace how lobbying money, media consolidation, and the two-party system have narrowed political choice until ordinary citizens have little real influence over policy. The film's central target is the liberal class itself: labor unions, the press, churches, and universities that once acted as a check on unchecked wealth and now, Hedges contends, have been absorbed into the system they were supposed to restrain. Rather than blaming a single party or politician, the film lays out a structural argument, showing how campaign finance, deregulation, and the shrinking of independent journalism reinforce each other. It closes without offering easy solutions, framing the recovery of an actual opposition movement as the only way out. The tone stays analytical rather than partisan, built more on Hedges' reasoning than on outrage.