Her book, the Handmaid's Tale, gives a fictionalized account of women in 17th Century New England being forced to bear children by tyrannical Puritan husbands and other nonsense.
Now, with the rise of the Conservative Right, she becomes just another shrill hysterical voice warning the world that THE PURITANS ARE COMING.
The Puritans! To a liberal, godless, secularized, sensualized, libertine America the Puritans are like aliens from a hostile planet.
Why, they are against same-sex marriage, abortion, Planned Parenthood, trans-gender bathrooms, legalized pot, muslim immigration, no fault divorce and The New World Order. In short, they are a MENACE that must be stopped at all cost.
These puritans actually believe the Bible to be The Word of God and believe that God answered their prayers to bring Donald Trump (the sum of all fears) to the White House. Most of them are also prating wild ideas that Jesus Christ is soon coming back to this earth to set up His Forever Kingdom.
If that is not the giddy limit!
I guess it is, because as far as limits are concerned, we are not even close to what is going to take place in the next four years.
By the time 2020 rolls around there will be boatloads Atwoods and her handmaids setting sail for the antipodes to escape the spiritual revival that is coming to North America.
Bring it on Lord.
Jubilate.
Ian
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