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Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia
A guide for anyone who wants to revive the American dream while the woke mob tries to burn down the country.
You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that something dark is happening in America. Just look around: Massive corporations monitor our every move. The Thought Police stand ready to cancel any who dare think for themselves. Brainwashed activists openly attack the American experiment.
The dystopian future we've been warned of is here.
Dave Rubin has been on the front lines of the culture wars for years. Now, he offers tactics you can use to protect yourself from today's authoritarian rule-from resisting the grip of Big Tech to staying sane in a post-truth world. What's more, he offers a vision for the next generation of patriots who will need to face the future head-on, holding fast to their values and creating a meaningful life no matter how frenzied and fabricated the news of the day is.
In order for free-thinking people to thrive in this era of woke lunacy, we need to step up and create freedom for ourselves. While exposing Progressive lies and offering practical advice you can employ right now, this book is a call for Americans to live the freest life possible-and a roadmap for saving the greatest country in the history of the world.
You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that something dark is happening in America. Just look around: Massive corporations monitor our every move. The Thought Police stand ready to cancel any who dare think for themselves. Brainwashed activists openly attack the American experiment.
The dystopian future we've been warned of is here.
Dave Rubin has been on the front lines of the culture wars for years. Now, he offers tactics you can use to protect yourself from today's authoritarian rule-from resisting the grip of Big Tech to staying sane in a post-truth world. What's more, he offers a vision for the next generation of patriots who will need to face the future head-on, holding fast to their values and creating a meaningful life no matter how frenzied and fabricated the news of the day is.
In order for free-thinking people to thrive in this era of woke lunacy, we need to step up and create freedom for ourselves. While exposing Progressive lies and offering practical advice you can employ right now, this book is a call for Americans to live the freest life possible-and a roadmap for saving the greatest country in the history of the world.
Editorial Reviews
"Whip-smart, funny, and willing to talk about anything, Dave Rubin has emerged as one of the most popular and essential political commentators in America. His political evolution has taken him from the ideological left to right, but his core mission remails the same: searching for truth, with wit and-sometimes--a bit of tequila."
-Megyn Kelly, host of The Megyn Kelly Show
"Dave Rubin is a rare person able to maintain his convictions, even in the face of personal attacks. He's an actual liberal in a world of authoritarian wokesters-and that's what America needs."
-Ben Shapiro, author of The Authoritarian Moment, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, and The Right Side of History
"Dave and I were on opposite sides politically for years, now we are not only co-workers; we are good friends. His voice is unique and important as we each decide if freedom is worth living for."
-Glenn Beck, author and host of The Glenn Beck Program
"Dave Rubin is a warrior for freedom. In an age where many worship dominant cultural ideologies, Dave is willing to scrutinize power instead. Journalism used to follow the dictum, "No fear, no favor." In a polarized age, many have chosen to move away from this aim, but Dave has not. He is willing to pursue the facts wherever they lead, with unflinching bravery and compassion."
-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Prey, Heretic, Nomad, and Infidel
-Megyn Kelly, host of The Megyn Kelly Show
"Dave Rubin is a rare person able to maintain his convictions, even in the face of personal attacks. He's an actual liberal in a world of authoritarian wokesters-and that's what America needs."
-Ben Shapiro, author of The Authoritarian Moment, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, and The Right Side of History
"Dave and I were on opposite sides politically for years, now we are not only co-workers; we are good friends. His voice is unique and important as we each decide if freedom is worth living for."
-Glenn Beck, author and host of The Glenn Beck Program
"Dave Rubin is a warrior for freedom. In an age where many worship dominant cultural ideologies, Dave is willing to scrutinize power instead. Journalism used to follow the dictum, "No fear, no favor." In a polarized age, many have chosen to move away from this aim, but Dave has not. He is willing to pursue the facts wherever they lead, with unflinching bravery and compassion."
-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Prey, Heretic, Nomad, and Infidel
Readers Top Reviews
Anonymous reviewe
It is unclear how this guy has made a career off of the same 5 talking points for several years. I would skip this one if you want insightful political commentary, regardless of your political views.
Christopher Miche
I pre-ordered this because I was told I’d receive a signed copy. I waited many months only to find it not signed at all. This was the first time I’ve ever pre ordered anything that was supposed to be “special “ . I’m so disappointed, never again!
Vadim BichutskiyC
Dave Rubin, one of my favorite people in this world, gives us the recipe for a good life: don't follow the mob, be an individual.
GeorgeGeorgeVadim
Well, I can say that I put my entire homework list aside today to read this book cover to cover & I do not regret it. Dave… WOW. This was both an incredibly inspirational read, but also at times proportionally hilarious. To anyone debating, DO NOT skip out on reading this book!
Short Excerpt Teaser
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There Are No Other Letters in "I"
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The Fight for Individual Rights
As political unrest in the Middle East exploded in the second half of 2021, I noticed a trend online that really knocked me off my chair: a new social justice movement called "Queers for Palestine." The movement, almost exclusively driven by people who live, unsurprisingly, in the US, is pretty straightforward. Gay and/or transgender American hipsters decided they empathize dearly with the oppressed people of Palestine, so they paraded in the streets of cities across the country declaring their solidarity.
All I have to say to these kids is there's no gay pride parade in Gaza. The simple truth is that Queers for Palestine is very different than Palestine for Queers, which usually ends in a fierce and fabulous trip off a rooftop for a pink-haired, genderqueer nonbinary Latinx lesbian.
Especially since the summer of 2020, ignorant displays of wokeness like these have become insufferable. What's worse, I can guarantee not a single soul who attended a Black Lives Matter rally on the mean streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn, has ever experienced true oppression in their lives. And the fact that the majority of the social justice crowd-woke liberals-does not understand just how lucky they are is very, very dangerous.
Yeonmi Park would know this better than anyone. Park was born in the northern part of North Korea in 1993. Growing up, she would regularly go without food and was made to believe that Kim Jong Il could read her mind. Her father risked everything to provide for his wife and two young daughters, but he was later imprisoned and tortured by the regime for trading on the black market.
When Yeonmi was thirteen, the Park family faced a difficult reality: die of starvation or die trying to be free. They chose the latter. Weighing sixty pounds and having just undergone a botched appendectomy, she crossed the Chinese border and waded through the icy Yalu River guided by human traffickers.
The moment they successfully escaped North Korea, they became sex slaves in China. Her mother was bought for sixty-five dollars. Yeonmi was bought for two hundred. She tried to kill herself, but one of the traffickers took a sick form of pity on her and said that if she became his mistress, that he would buy her mother and bring the family back together.
While in China, Yeonmi learned that she could be free in South Korea. So with seven others and armed only with a compass and the North Star, she escaped her captor and walked across the freezing Gobi Desert to Mongolia, and was eventually caught by a Mongolian soldier. Defectors carry poison with them in case they are caught and sent back to North Korea. As she reached for the poison to end her life, the soldier sympathized and contacted South Korea instead of North Korea.
During our conversation on The Rubin Report, I asked Yeonmi if life in China was better than her life in North Korea. She responded, "At thirteen, somehow I learned not to feel. It wasn't like I was thinking, Am I happy here? It was that every second was survival."
In South Korea, she learned that thinking for herself took a lot of effort. Instead of being told what to wear, what to listen to, or what to watch, she suddenly had to decide on her own. Despite the freedoms and quality of life being drastically better, Yeonmi felt a deep loneliness setting in, as no one seemed to understand her plight and most South Koreans looked down on North Korean defectors.
Years later, she moved to America-"the land of the free and the home of the brave." She was excited for the new life that awaited her, far away from the totalitarianism of her homeland and the loneliness of South Korea. One day, at around 2 p.m., Yeonmi was walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago when three women forcefully stole her wallet. When she tried to grab hold of her attackers, they punched her in the face, stole her purse, and held her down as the one with the bag ran away.
As she yelled, begging for help, the surrounding Chicagoans told her to stop yelling-t...
There Are No Other Letters in "I"
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The Fight for Individual Rights
As political unrest in the Middle East exploded in the second half of 2021, I noticed a trend online that really knocked me off my chair: a new social justice movement called "Queers for Palestine." The movement, almost exclusively driven by people who live, unsurprisingly, in the US, is pretty straightforward. Gay and/or transgender American hipsters decided they empathize dearly with the oppressed people of Palestine, so they paraded in the streets of cities across the country declaring their solidarity.
All I have to say to these kids is there's no gay pride parade in Gaza. The simple truth is that Queers for Palestine is very different than Palestine for Queers, which usually ends in a fierce and fabulous trip off a rooftop for a pink-haired, genderqueer nonbinary Latinx lesbian.
Especially since the summer of 2020, ignorant displays of wokeness like these have become insufferable. What's worse, I can guarantee not a single soul who attended a Black Lives Matter rally on the mean streets of Park Slope, Brooklyn, has ever experienced true oppression in their lives. And the fact that the majority of the social justice crowd-woke liberals-does not understand just how lucky they are is very, very dangerous.
Yeonmi Park would know this better than anyone. Park was born in the northern part of North Korea in 1993. Growing up, she would regularly go without food and was made to believe that Kim Jong Il could read her mind. Her father risked everything to provide for his wife and two young daughters, but he was later imprisoned and tortured by the regime for trading on the black market.
When Yeonmi was thirteen, the Park family faced a difficult reality: die of starvation or die trying to be free. They chose the latter. Weighing sixty pounds and having just undergone a botched appendectomy, she crossed the Chinese border and waded through the icy Yalu River guided by human traffickers.
The moment they successfully escaped North Korea, they became sex slaves in China. Her mother was bought for sixty-five dollars. Yeonmi was bought for two hundred. She tried to kill herself, but one of the traffickers took a sick form of pity on her and said that if she became his mistress, that he would buy her mother and bring the family back together.
While in China, Yeonmi learned that she could be free in South Korea. So with seven others and armed only with a compass and the North Star, she escaped her captor and walked across the freezing Gobi Desert to Mongolia, and was eventually caught by a Mongolian soldier. Defectors carry poison with them in case they are caught and sent back to North Korea. As she reached for the poison to end her life, the soldier sympathized and contacted South Korea instead of North Korea.
During our conversation on The Rubin Report, I asked Yeonmi if life in China was better than her life in North Korea. She responded, "At thirteen, somehow I learned not to feel. It wasn't like I was thinking, Am I happy here? It was that every second was survival."
In South Korea, she learned that thinking for herself took a lot of effort. Instead of being told what to wear, what to listen to, or what to watch, she suddenly had to decide on her own. Despite the freedoms and quality of life being drastically better, Yeonmi felt a deep loneliness setting in, as no one seemed to understand her plight and most South Koreans looked down on North Korean defectors.
Years later, she moved to America-"the land of the free and the home of the brave." She was excited for the new life that awaited her, far away from the totalitarianism of her homeland and the loneliness of South Korea. One day, at around 2 p.m., Yeonmi was walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago when three women forcefully stole her wallet. When she tried to grab hold of her attackers, they punched her in the face, stole her purse, and held her down as the one with the bag ran away.
As she yelled, begging for help, the surrounding Chicagoans told her to stop yelling-t...
