I Don’t Know How To Warn A World That Doesn’t Want To Listen

Everything in The Handmaid’s Tale has already happened

Women dressed as a Handmaid from The Handmaid’s Tale March 11, 2023 // photo from Wikipedia

Sometimes, I wonder what it must feel like to be Margaret Atwood.

I don’t mean being a bestselling author, having sixty books and countless book awards to my name, like Atwood has. I mean watching the news as things she wrote in a book forty years ago slowly come true. Bit by bit.

The Handmaid’s tale is a fictional story of America after the Constitution fell. A religious group called Sons of Jacob stormed the government and took control. Their goal was to make America great again.

The authoritarian regime didn’t happen overnight. It happened piece by piece, law by law, restriction by restriction. Rich religious people taking over while the people watched, stunned, not knowing what to do.

That’s really what the book is about. Written in 1984.

You can’t make this stuff up. 1984. Hello, Orwell.

First time President Trump was elected, sales of The Handmaid’s Tale went through the roof. So crazy they made a television series. Think about that. Published in 1984. Thirty three years later, they made a series.