I do not know particularly why I liked this, other than it reminded me a bit of John Wyndham in its use of language and its perspective of the common man through Doug, and that the ending, besides its relative predictability, is still capable of being a little surprising w/r/t Jones and what happens with the government. That's at least a minor feat, since having Jones as a precog could've meant the whole thing was telegraphed from the beginning.

It is not spectacular; I liked it.

Later PKD is better, and weirder, but there's nothing really wrong with this.