Author of The Handmaids Tale: It was farfetched when I wrote it but Trump is making it real

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Margaret Atwood, whose dystopian 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” describes a a totalitarian theocracy that has taken over the U.S. and subjugated women for the ruling class, claims the election of Donald Trump is making her book all too real now.

In an interview at Cuba’s international book fair, the Canadian-born Atwood said sales of “The Handmaid’s Tale” have jumped with the election of Trump, while admitting interest has also grown due to a remake of the 1990 film as a miniseries to be shown on Hulu.

According to Reuters, Atwood told the audience the idea behind the book seemed “far-fetched” when she wrote it.

“When it first came out it was viewed as being farfetched,” Atwood explained. “However when I wrote it I was making sure I wasn’t putting anything into it that human beings had not already done somewhere at sometime.”

According to Atwood, the rise of Trump with his boasting of sexually assaulting women on whim — as well as once saying women should face punishment if they get an abortion — is making her book more relevant now than ever with the book once again becoming a best seller.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/author-of-the-handmaids-tale-it-was-farfetched-when-i-wrote-it-but-trump-is-making-it-real/

[sheshe2]

1. Oh dear Goddess, Atwood is 100% correct.

[mopinko]

2. we are at war w our base nature. our base nature has never changed.

because it is, duh, our base. our naked monkey brain. our mob/stress response. our catastrophic fall back. the blueprint of every totalitarian regime, ever. hitler is a blip on that eons long list.

we need to lift ourselves up, now, w our higher brains. w art, music, thought, law, solidarity. protest. resistance. logic. truth.

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
we have been so close these last 8 years.
let us all grab on now, and bend it toward justice.

[eleny]

3. Her prescience is chilling

The books of hers that I've read are all sobering and compelling.

[mopinko]

4. it was far fetched, but it was also the logical end of the road we were on.

it was completely the logical end of everything that was/is happening in this country, and in our ever shakier world.

[ProudLib72]

5. Lets start book clubs for tRump supporters

and this can be the first book we read and discuss.

Honestly, how many believe that tRump supporters would even make the connection? And if they made the connection, how many would be upset by the similarities? Dystopia is the right's utopia.