Handmaid's Tale: refugee

I'm still watching The Handmaid's Tale, and I recommend it to anyone interested. It's hard to watch because it's so grim, but it's very good. I was especially struck by a scene in the episode I watched tonight.

After a civil war here in the US in which the religious conservatives won, women are treated horribly .... not just them but also LGBT people and others as well ... but as one would expect, everyone who could tried to escape the country. In this episode, one of the main characters, Moira, after having been forced to be a prostitute, is able to escape to Canada.

I could not help but think of the migrants at our southern border, many of them women and their children, trying to escape a situation that they consider so awful that they are willing to go through extreme hardship in order to flee to a better place. When they come here, thanks to Trump, they are treated like shit.

But in The Handmaid's Tale, Moira the refugee to Canada, is treated so differently - like a human being ...



Shame on the Republicans. lawmakers and voters, who support Trump in his heartless immigration policies.