That may be what you're getting from The Handmaid's Tale but it's not what the author intended nor is it what the leftists are getting from it. Atwood is a feminist liberal and she certainly wasn't intending the point you're claiming.
They may be dumb but they're doing exactly what Atwood intended and encourages to this day.
"The Handmaid’s Tale falls squarely within the twentieth-century tradition of anti-utopian, or “dystopian,” novels, exemplified by classics like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. Novels in this genre present imagined worlds and societies that are not ideals, but instead are terrifying or restrictive. Atwood’s novel offers a strongly feminist vision of dystopia. She wrote it shortly after the elections of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain, during a period of conservative revival in the West partly fueled by a strong, well-organized movement of religious conservatives who criticized what they perceived as the excesses of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s. The growing power of this “religious right” heightened feminist fears that the gains women had made in previous decades would be reversed."
That may be what you're getting from The Handmaid's Tale but it's not what the author intended nor is it what the leftists are getting from it. Atwood is a feminist liberal and she certainly wasn't intending the point you're claiming.
They may be dumb but they're doing exactly what Atwood intended and encourages to this day.
"The Handmaid’s Tale falls squarely within the twentieth-century tradition of anti-utopian, or “dystopian,” novels, exemplified by classics like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. Novels in this genre present imagined worlds and societies that are not ideals, but instead are terrifying or restrictive. Atwood’s novel offers a strongly feminist vision of dystopia. She wrote it shortly after the elections of Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain, during a period of conservative revival in the West partly fueled by a strong, well-organized movement of religious conservatives who criticized what they perceived as the excesses of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s. The growing power of this “religious right” heightened feminist fears that the gains women had made in previous decades would be reversed."
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/handmaid/context/
I see it the same way as moonchild. It was once again peeps in power abusing others for their own gain