Still it makes you wonder what the author saw so many decades ago that made him write such a story.
It has been building up to this for a long time.
I’m in my late fifty’s and I was commenting about my thoughts at the time I read it. And I still wonder what he saw at the time that made him want to write a story about such a future. If I remember it was about ten years after the race riots so that made it probably during Carter’s term as president. Unemployment was high and the economy sucked but I don’t recall Police over-reach then as I see happening now.