A plague ravages the country, though the government issues statements that it is no threat, and people should return to work. The only people running for president are pedophiles with dementia. Corporations hold all the power. AI threatens to put humans out of the job. Food, rent, and fuel has never cost more, and wages have never been lower. Every day, people get gunned down in mass shootings. Global warming ravages the ecosystem and the economy. Freak flooding and hurricanes year-round, merciless deep freezes and deadly heat waves in the same year. Toxic waste spills happen on a regular basis and American citizens get left to suffer with the corporations responsible.

If John Carpenter wrote this shit in 1983 he’d make fucking bank