What if the religious right went beyond elections and staged a revolution, establishing an American government that replaced the Constitution with the Bible? How could it take place? What would life be like under it, especially for women?
Handmaid’s tale will come to life.
I honestly believe that if this happens, it will drastically change how we look at the world around us. Imagine the situation in schools: we would no longer be learning multiple perspectives but rather just the view of the bible. Children will be discouraged from trying to think out of the box and might even face consequences if they try to. Women would no longer have a say in any decisions and all the sacrifices that were made by previous activists, in order to try and go away from such a situation, would be futile. Women would essentially become objects for men and it would cause women to “hope” that they are the “rich wife” who just have to stay in the house and do nothing (a situation not exactly best either)
The scary part is – I don’t think that this is something that completely unrealistic. Recently,