Empire

Wow. In Empire, Orson Scott Card takes the current political situation in the United States and extrapolates one possible outcome. We are more polarized now that we have been at any other time since the Civil War. Of course, it is a bit harder to separate possible sides in a possible crisis today, unlike the Mason-Dixon line. You cannot just say red states and blue states, or urban and rural.

Major Rueben Malich is ordered to look at the security in D.C. and find a way that terrorist might find a way to assassinate the President. As a trained Special Ops guy, this seems like a perfect assignment for his skills. But when his plans are used in an attack, he must find out who set him up - before he becomes the scape goat and ends up silenced.

The attack on the White House is the catalyst that sets off the civil war / revolution. But is the war started by the Left or the Right? And how can you tell them apart?

Card, Orson. S. (2006). Empire. New York: Tor.