This fixation, as you call it, doesn’t seem to be a figment of imagination. Congress was given a lengthy report, just about the same time as the 9/11 report came out, detailing just how vulnerable our system is to an EMP. They don’t seem to think it’s funny.
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf
Oh my goodness. I see a EMP - End of the world - thread about once a week. Hence use of the term ‘fixation’.
Could an EMP storm (IF it ever happened) hurt some areas of the US.
Yes.
Anything at all that YOU can do about it?
Nope.
I know there is nothing I can do.
I am more worried about a crackhead busting on my door (has happened) or a house fire (largest single disaster in the US) or loss of utilities hitting Anchorage than ‘possible’ EMP storm hitting the Earth.
And while CONgress may not find it funny - they have done ZIP about the “issue”. Or at least they have taken the same amount of care as they have for:
Civil Defense
Locking the borders
Expelling illegals
Stopping bad airline pratices
etc, etc, etc.
So, ya, LOL.
YMMV.