• Alternative economy building. How do you pay for your campaign without offering something to someone? What sorts of people do the people looking to influence candidates want? Prison labor is lucrative. Children are difficult to care for. The less stressed people are, the fewer children they have. The more adequate the education, the fewer children they’ll have. Religion is a particularly useful tool in all of this. It’s striking, just how perfectly A Handmaid’s Tale still holds up to modern scrutiny.