The vast majority of society, if they are even aware of the prepper movement, view preppers as borderline paranoids. Rural folk clinging to their guns and bibles. They are viewed as “preparing” for a future that will not come. There is even a television program dedicated to the phenomena. Mockingly called “Doomsday Preppers”, its viewers are divided between those filled with either distain or praise.
The origins and recent growth of the prepper movement reveal a different story. Often in the past, people have often sought to hoard supplies against perceived risks that others found foolish. However, the modern prepper movement is different. The size of the movement, and the varied reasons for preparing refute the idea that it is the result of a mass psychosis or hysteria.
The fact is that millions of people in the Anglosphere and beyond have independently come to the conclusion that it is important to have some vital supplies on hand in case of emergency is undeniable. There is a mass consciousness at work, but it is not based on paranoia or hysteria. It is based on a conscious and unconscious analysis of available data.
It is an undeniable fact of life that everyone who depends on others, or civilization, for food, water, and energy will, at some time, experience a denial of these goods. Floods, earthquakes, electrical, ice and snow storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the like are natural occurrences, and these acts of nature will cut you off. The electrical grid is so fragile that a tree falling in Ohio will cause a blackout in Toronto. A storm on the sun can send New York City into darkness. These outages are usually temporary, although they can last as long as a week, before things get back to normal. Having a week’s supply of food and water, therefore, would seem to be a prudent thing for everybody. Everyone should be an “emergency prepper”.
The effects of such natural disasters are usually short lived. Most preppers believe that there is a far greater disaster looming, and they are right.
Since the US Federal Reserve Bank was established in 1913, the US dollar has lost roughly 95% of its value. That’s only about 1% a year and, in the grand scheme of things, not a big deal.
The big deal is that under President Obama the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have gone on a borrowing, printing and spending binge unlike anything ever seen. If Obama is re-elected in November, the United States will experience an economic collapse within two years. The dollar will fall steeply in value and inflation will ravish people’s savings and pensions. The US will become Greece times 100.
If Obama is defeated, the new president will face a daunting task. It is possible that the tipping point has already have been reached. The crushing debt that has already been incurred might simply be too large to be dealt with by conventional means.
The treatment required might create more economic disruption than the society can take. A return to sane fiscal and monetary policy to avoid a complete collapse will require a restructuring of government at the federal level. The budget will have to be cut by hundreds of billions. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will have to be fired. Entitlement programs will have to be cut or even eliminated.
View this video and ask yourself if people are prepared for benefits like EBT to be eliminated.
This video depicts the behavior of people waiting for applications to get on a waiting list for benefits. In other words, they are rioting for the application to get on a waiting list.
Here is more of the same.
These riots happened in America in good times. Imagine the chaos when things get bad.
If you think this is not the future of urban America, think again. And prepare.
