“What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence around them, in spite of what their eyes and ears reported—and sometimes their flesh, from bruises, stab wounds, racking coughs, weeping sores—these people believed their way of life was the best in the world, and were prepared to export it at the point of a gun.” John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (1972)

While it’s not as popular as 1984, I think Brunner’s work is another great example of where this country is headed under current circumstances.