Who needs dystopian fiction when we’ve got the United States in 2018? Our politicians work for corporations, millions of people live in urban poverty in the richest nation on Earth as their wealthy suburban neighbors kill themselves with obesity and drugs, social programs are gutted while the Pentagon’s forever war…

Thank you for your insight into this. Though I live in New Jersey, I’ve known communities with plenty of people like the ones you describe. The paragraph in particular where you describe people’s beliefs juxtaposed against their ignorance of those belief’s outcomes sticks out to me the most: