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The subject here is the exhaustion of the liberal conception of democracy. In order to tackle that, one takes into account the events occurred in June 2013 in Brazil, when a series of expressive public demonstrations revealed the crisis of this democratic narrative. This crisis is, precisely, the research problem of this article. Tentatively, as a hypothesis, one argues that these June Journeys (how the demonstrations became known as), despite the plurality of their demands and possible interpretations, served to express a social dissatisfaction with a merely procedural and representative democracy that fails to take the plurality of social interests into account, resulting in a conservative political culture that shies away from public debate in the name of a governability based on a hostility to the public voices. In order to conduct this analysis, one uses the hypothetic-deductive method while centering on bibliographical sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]