Own The Libs

Trump. Woke hysteria. Disinformation and conspiracy theories. Public officials in service of nothing but their own personal agendas. Media punditry and the death of true expertise. These are the main ingredients of the political alphabet soup that we have been getting served over the past decade. And we’ve been waterboarded with it so much, politics has become our personality.

This book dives deep into this mass psychogenic illness that America and, to a lesser but still concerning extent, Canada, have been suffering from since 2016. The author explores public behaviors in the physical and digital squares, the mainstreaming of extremist rhetoric, the hijacking of the information ecosystem, and our consequent “social sorting” into highly polarized, ideologically homogeneous groups.

The author calls out critical events in the American political timeline and offers theoretical analyses from the fields of communication, psychology, business, and culture theory. Own The Libs examines the recent past and ponders the important question, “Where are we headed?”