Handmaid's tale coming to you

Handmaid's tale coming to a state near you

If you never watched the show The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, you have missed out. This show is set in the future in the United States. Gilead, is a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women, Offred, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and find the daughter that was taken from her.

When I first started watching this show I thought this could never happen in real life. But the more I watched the more I realized that in fact it can and lately it looks like it has already started.

Women's rights are slowly being taken away. The LGBTQ community is feeling it already with the "Don't say gay" law that passed in Florida. Our so called governor Deathsantis never called out his groups for picketing Disneyland with flags of Swastika, but then again neither did #45.

They are slowly but surely trying to take away our rights. They are trying to make abortion illegal, with jail time, are you frigging kidding me? With caveats about people snitching on you, wtf? Wait, am I still in the United States of America? Or did I just fall asleep and wake up in Gilead?

In a second they can and will try to take away all of our rights, who's next? African Americans? Jewish? Different religions that don't fall in line? When does it stop?

We must all stand up for each other, it doesn't matter if we are part of who they are after. Because once they come for me, they will come for you eventually and then who will speak for you?

Let us never forget what happened in Germany, and the Holocaust. How slowly they took over and imprisoned and killed millions of people. All because we sat idle and did nothing. So many didn't believe it could happen or that it was going on and so they didn't speak out.

So today my friends remember as of now we still live in a free country but that can change in a heartbeat unless we unite and stand with each other making sure everyone, EVERY ONE, gets equal rights. These are the rights our forefathers fought and died for and we must protect them. Go out, protest, vote, hell, run for office but do something even if it's not your cause because trust me one day it will be and it may be too late.

Like I say at the end of every blog…only you can be the change you want to see 

@TreadmillTreats