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Wtf is going on over there? This sounds like Westboro Baptists have gone mainstream.
When I first read The Handmaid's Tale in the 1990s it read like an interesting thought experiment, not a prophecy.
Sure, explain to me!
My guess is that it could be some kind of opportunistic rise of theocratic fascism that has been empowered by the weakening of the social order and social institutions by the clash of disaster capitalism with the old establishment?
It's very disconcerting.