Given the increasingly secular nature of the US, and given that we literally have televisions (see recent revelations about IoT fuckups/overreaches) watching us and people editing mainstream history...

...yeah, sorry dude, one of these is more relevant than the other.

If you want to generalize THT to be general misogyny, maybe, but if you do that then you need to treat 1984 with the same generality.

EDIT: Okay HN, clearly we are living on the precipice of a collapse of western civilization into militant theocracies. Clearly this co-opting of economics and politics by religious whackos is somehow more likely than a ubiquitous surveillance state kept in perpetual war to benefit a small elite .

Obviously, this is the more realistic dystopia, and my internalized bigotry is somehow preventing me from seeing the truth.

Or, you know, you're wrong.