I know I shouldn’t enjoy it, but I am, and by far too much. I’m watching the meltdowns online, with people crying nonstop. How suddenly they need all the things that old-school preppers have been saying for years. But they don’t want to get lumped in with Christian white male preppers. Of course.
Because all preppers look like this, am I right? Especially spilling beans everywhere…….
Even though prepping was never about being male, white, or Christian, plenty of us are women, many are not super religious, and we are fiercely independent. Even the local group of NIMBY people on my island are crying; they need to form emergency preparedness groups, so they can build food stores to use in case of “climate emergencies.” This local group has not been open to preparing for earthquakes, storms, or anything else, but then a major election happened, and they suddenly wanted to organize emergency preparedness pods.
What is far more critical is having a free mind and not doing things because groups fuel your fears.
You must be able to think for yourself. You must have a moral compass that you listen to. That is when you make a good prepper. You have to be ready to accept that the government isn’t your friend, its job isn’t to rescue you, and that if things get bad enough, they will be your enemy (enforced lockdowns, for example, being forced out of urban areas. no food, water off, no power). And that if civil unrest were to become that bad, there would be a point where there isn’t any government left, but rather well-armed soldiers now working for themselves in groups.
In these posts, over and over, they are saying/writing the same bullet points:
- A way to get home
- A bug-out bag for both getting home and leaving, if need be
- A safe place to bug out to/or their home feels safe
- Cash on hand
- Food supplies
- Medicine
- Hiking shoes
- Being prepared for ‘climate change’ events (which means flooding, heavy snow and things like hurricanes – which have always happened)
- Being able to protect yourself (and suddenly, many of them are rather pro-firearm, whereas before, only the government needed them)
- Civil unrest
That last one is powerful. Four years ago, they were fine living in urban areas where civil unrest was happening constantly. Certain cities had whole corridors destroyed through petty violence. And yet, these same people were OK with it. Because underneath it, they assumed that the anarchists/opportunists doing it would see they were “good people” and leave them be. What they are afraid of now is that this same behavior will occur, but this time, the National Guard will activate and be armed (see Washington State in 2020, where the Guard was not allowed to carry weapons in the Chaz/Chad area), and will enforce the law. And it won’t be to their liking.
They are anxious because “Daddy Don” will tell the states to knock it off and keep people safe. If the states refuse to stop violence, the US government will intervene, and that scares them. Those people won’t care about them or how special they think they are.
Because their very left leanings say it’s OK to take what they “need” (want) because it’s only hurting capitalist overlords. Does anyone remember the 2020 Seattle Antifa riot when the chick stole an entire Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, including the glass dish?
Yeah, I remember it. She was one of the many reasons people quit going to Seattle. They didn’t feel safe.
It’s funny that they want to prep because while that didn’t scare them, law and order does. Suddenly, having supplies is important when you can’t take what you want by stealing.
Takeaways:
They need to learn to shut their cell phones off, live using paper guides, and acquire life skills. That cash is still king—because you can use it when the power is down or when we have transmission problems.
They need to have skills in solar, water collection, cooking, food storage, and finding others to work with.
Bugging out isn’t something to do unless you have a place to go – that is expecting you. They must learn that the country isn’t for them to go to. Nor the mountains. It’s already occupied by people who live there.
There’s nothing wrong with learning new skills and working toward a better life. Resilience is the goal for everyone.
However, as new preppers, they will find their viewpoints change the more they put into it.
Prepper school might change them into being a lot different in a year’s time. And find out that in the end….we are more alike than different.
~Sarah