To compress the story of the Liberal classes, we could slightly modify the folktale of the Emperor's New Clothes. That upon discovering that the emperor's garments are a farce, the retainers tear swatches from the clothing of the surrounding populace to cobble together a solution. For example, the Democratic party in the US snatches the mantles of the sciences and identity politics and organized labor to cover up the embarrassing excesses of naked predation. The problem with such a haphazard and cynical approach is that the cobbled-together solution is less effective, and does damage to the real thing that it draws from.
A new garment is best instantiated whole with a cohesive technique whose integrity is intact. And to rend an existing garment is to interrupt the continuity of its threads and expose them, weakening it and encouraging further disintegration.
