re: #148 The Vicious Babushka

In Margaret Atwood’s novel, the “handmaids” were the result of a global infertility pandemic. Who knew that in real life it would be some really stupid bullshit like “White genocide”

I thought it was confined to the United States - and also some unspecified nuclear disaster had taken place on the West Coast…..all of it came together and then Christian fanatics within the US military wiped out the US Congress (during the SOTU address, IIRC), seized power, declared martial law and then proclaimed the Republic of Gilead.

It’s been years since I’ve read the book - at least a decade. But yeah, there was some kind of infertility issue combined with a host of ecological disasters.