How does this event/problem in the story affect us today?

For this question, I read the book called Empire. It is a book written by Orson Scott Card, a formidable Sci-Fi writer who wrote a famous novel called Ender's Game, and the many sequels that followed. The reason this book affects us even now, is because the author wrote about the possibility of another civil war. Except this one would be fought on the basis of the red-states not following the Constitution and the blue-states taking their revenge by murdering the President. I think that this war might still be a problem because there are still people that don't like the way current politics are going and would be willing to assassinate the President to change things. And that is why I believe that this book affects us right now. Because this is an actual possibility for the future of our country