I’m not sure how long the author has been off his meds, but I expect someone in his family ought to be noticing by now.
a short story based in reality is how I'd label it.
Too bad more of us won’t be alive 10 years from now so we can look back and say this writer was correct. You can mock him if you want, but have you been following the news? There’s no other outcome for today’s political corruption and social tension OTHER than Civil War. Do you deny it happened once before in this country too?