Always has been their goal.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I called it years ago when my wife first watched The Handmaid’s Tale: I said oh fuck, this is now what the conservatives are going to create. Ever since then I have periodically written online about this, and how we should start getting used to America as Gilead. It started to spread slowly, and I see people make this reference more and more, and I truly hope it’s not too late. Because that’s their goddamn wet dream; to make America into exactly as depicted in those book / shows.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, since the 1950s, but this only inspired them with a clear depiction and got them to amp it up even more.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The writer based some of the characters on real people, back when she wrote it in like the 1970s.
Triasha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All of the practices in the book are inspired by real history.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Makes sense.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
The funniest thing is hopping on a VPN to avoid porn bans and the state the VPN is in also has a porn ban.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale, was in turn, partly based on how Iran went from an absolute kingdom with a secular urban culture and lifestyle to a male-dominated theocracy.
That the US began largely as a string of colonies run by religious officials, an arrangement those megalomaniacal evangelists are trying to bring back, those pricks literally believing they’re on “holy” land and must live up to it.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But they left Europe in part to get away from church government. First amendment and all that. Most of them were religious but they wanted it out of government.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And now they’re putting up a fascist theocracy. The irony.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, they wanted other people’s religion out of government
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They were not even the same religions as one-another, so that makes no sense. Also, there’s no basis for that idea.
Triasha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some of them wanted it out of government. The fundies of the day we’re willing to go along because their parents and grandparents were chased out of England for being wackados.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point is that they put the separation of church and state right into the constitution in the first amendment. The fact that they codified it as such, established that it was a primary principle they wanted for the nation’s foundational philosophy.
emmy67@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t jealousy why they hate iran?