” I don’t want it to become known as the SHTF movement in print, no matter how cutesy you guys think that language is.”
Sorry, but there is no such thing as “the movement”. Not “the survivalist movement”, not “the prepping movement”; there is no movement. There is no group-think, no group, and no common mentality. There is only the belief that each person may find themselves in a situation that may require them to take action and be prepared as they see fit.
I don’t even like the term “survivalist”. It conjures images of some camouflaged idiot and his double-barrel million-gauge shotgun promising to blow away his neighbors in the hills if need be because he’s a “survivalist”, yet, he hasn’t brains to blow his nose. “Prepping” has been a term over the past 10 years or so and describes people that prepare for living and less on the Army Ranger wannabee side. Sure, they have weapons, and many are prior military and fit to use those weapons, but the idea is not about Zombie combat but about living through and long past any man-made situation. Less military minded people also participate and prefer the “prep” term and reject the “survivalist” term for the same reasons I described above.
SHTF has been a common expression for decades that I know of. There is no common term by which to describe civil unrest, war, or whatever a person may think will happen such as to recommend prepping, survival, or whatever a person decides to call it. There simply isn’t an official, formal, or common expression for it. If you can’t use a term because you think it is harsh, I doubt you have the intestinal fortitude to handle it when it comes.
A common expression in private conversation among some, I don’t talk like that to women for instance, and almost never do it even among men in private, but never to children and in general conversation and writing, this is part of the cultural decay, why you are for it is baffling. I do not see cussing becoming everyday and mainstream at all levels of public use something that conservatives would be fighting for.
I don’t see how your agenda fits in with conservatism.
For the pioneers that have been attempting to spread preparedness for decades, it is something of a movement.
For you to equate public cussing with “intestinal fortitude” reveals your immaturity, and is a sign that you are lacking in masculinity.
I'll tell that to my preparedness group when we have our monthly meeting next week ... when we get together and think as a group - and generally discuss a common expectation of where society is headed.
We also network with other preppers throughout the nation. Disaster "communities" are forming, some even linking up via ham radio.
We have nurses, former military, plumbers, IT people, CEOs, musicians, EMT's ... people from all walks of life ... and all wonderful human beings. We even had a "Warren Buffet" type stop into one of our meetings.