Similar categories includes many people who cannot prep. My nearest neighbor farmer is a friend and a good man - one who despises both Obama and welfare. He's also not the temperament to prep and doesn't have enough food to make it through the winter, probably not enough to make it to Thanksgiving without getting hungry. I would certainly give him ammo (he has weapons but keeps less than one box of ammo in his home), and I would trade food for the winter in return for a promise of more food at harvest.
It comes down to who I want in my community five years later, and it is certainly my place to decide that. Anyone who would assume the problem was not enough socialism won't get anything from me voluntarily. Anyone with conservative values is worth having around, if I can help make that happen. There is strength in numbers.
I understand your position. I’m just concerned that for so many, prepping today seems to grow out of a powerful matrix of ‘fear and foreboding’, instead of a simple, healthy awareness of potential emergencies; and I just don’t think that’s constructive or healthy.
Best,
JT