It's sad that some Americans unironically believe this will happen under President Trump's next administration. The mainstream media indoctrination and mass formation psychosis runs deep.
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🧠 These people are stupid!
All of what you said, but what pushed the book mainstream was Margaret Atwood changing the original concept of the novel (repressive regime based on the Ayatollah era Iran) to please her academic cohorts, and said cohorts giving her an award for it and pushing that book to the right people in the media.
It's propaganda from its inception, and like most award winning books, is juvenile and unreadable once you actually really read into it.