Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I’m reading this book, and it’s like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling “oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!” Not as blatant and (I don’t know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I’m missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government’s overreach… Etc, it’s all here now.
I didn’t know he wrote that. Apparently I got to the book before he was outed.
You could take elements of any novel set in a dystopian future and find commonalities. Like the other commenter said, it’s likely that shitty people were given ideas by these books instead of being warned off.