Then there are the riots, food shortages, criminal gangs robbing at will. Who knows if the central and state governments would even hold - they could crumble or worse be ineffectual. Everything works on a JIT system and that system would remain broken for a long time. Power would be something you make yourself.
A few guns ammo and stored rations will only last and work so long - what happens after that stuff runs out?
Do you know how to hunt, trap, build shelters from scratch using hand tools, build a boat, make weapons, find water, grow gardens using non-gmo seeds, know which native plants can be eaten and when and which have medicinal properties and those preparations and uses?
The list goes on. If you have never done any of those things books can help you learn, but only experience works.
I’m aware of the needs and have experience on some of it. I’m working on the other things. A person does what she can.
Are you saying the one person/family would not be able to fully prepare?
If so, then the only way a family would survive is by them all being aware of the danger, even if it’s not comfortable. So the question for families is if they would rather die of rioting, starvation, dehydration, etc after living comfortably with no fears, or if they would rather be uncomfortable and sometimes feel hopeless but be prepared if TSHTF. That’s probably the choice that people face.
I’d bet you a lot of money (if I had any. lol) that most people are not willing to do the latter. They would rather take their chances when TSHTF than to have to trouble themselves at knowing the danger before it’s too late.
BTW, the scenario you present - especially considering that sleeper cells are positioned all over the country to take the government for Islam if the chance arises - is precisely what I suspect Obama is planning on in November or December when he’s out of the country. There’s no way a President-elect could be inaugurated in those circumstances, and especially if the sleeper cells take over the state governments and/or DC (though with Obama in power of DC via phone communications to the White House bunker who needs sleeper cells in DC?) It would possibly take some time for the federal government to be totally disbanded even after the state governments fell to Islam and were claimed for the caliphate, and that may be why Obama said he would be POTUS for “the next 8 to 10 years”.
The scenario in which he would be POTUS for 10 years is if something happened at the end of his 2nd term that kept a new POTUS from being inaugurated - something so dire that it was simply not possible for that to happen. And now we’re on the verge of that time period and behold, all is ready...