Anybody remember Stephen King's book, Dead Zone

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9. I remember The Stand.

An eye for trends and some imagination to project where the trends could lead can create some novels that become interestingly accurate later.

When The Stand was published, I took the pandemic to be symbolic of a social and cultural "illness" in the country and how it could lead to a showdown of opposing sides.

Decades later, when we had an actual biological pandemic, we also had the social and cultural polarization, too.

Showdown was partially achieved with the election of Biden. It was a rest period in which a full showdown was postponed. The struggle continues, more intense now.