The kicker is from about the turn of the century we experienced a kind of golden age where it was finally cool to be a geek but then from 2016 it's been devolving into the age where it's cool to be a racist piece of shit.

Breaking Bad S06E01 AI-style: Walt, Jesse and Hank hire Wolverine as muscle for a sitdown with a Colombian cartel. Skylar and Marie decide to start a telemarketing scam. Walt Jr meets a cute girl at school.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that the only thing hindering the most powerful nation on earth from pulling down the whole world into a techno-fascist dystopia is their relentless clownshow incompetence.

"I don't know why everyone hates me" weeps world's richest man after promoting Nazis, firing 65,000 people without cause, gloating about dismantling social security because it only benefits "parasites", and then awarding all the government money to himself so his shitty rockets can blow up.

So obviously the difference between the backstory of Handmaid's Tale and what is currently unfolding in America is... um, the difference is... I got nothing.