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Study Finds Rise In ‘Doomsday Prepping’ Due To Mainstream American ‘Culture Of Fear’
Study Finds ^ | August 10, 2019 | John Anderer

Posted on 08/10/2019 10:19:27 PM PDT by familyop

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To: familyop

I’m NOT throwing out my supplies—collected during the Obama years!


21 posted on 08/11/2019 1:45:08 AM PDT by Does so (To continue in English, press 2...)
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To: Does so

I find I have too many supplies that need to be used up.....I’m going to be a little more careful this time around


22 posted on 08/11/2019 2:15:24 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Equine1952

The pilgrims prepped for winter, citizens prepped for wars and depressions.

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Biblical Joseph, prepped in Egypt for seven years, for a famine that lasted seven years.


23 posted on 08/11/2019 2:30:38 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (.Calling Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton Reverends is like calling dog shit tootsie rolls)
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To: familyop

CWII


24 posted on 08/11/2019 2:36:02 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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To: familyop
the general idea among many conservatives that if when a Democrat regains control of the White House it will inevitably lead to chaos remains very much connected to the phenomenon of doomsday preppers

Normal people who just want to live their own lives will not be vigilant forever. I pray that we can delay the disaster of another democrat in our White House for another four years, perhaps even more, but it will happen. The totalitarian globalists will seize power again, and they will be immeasurably worse than ever before. Be prepared.

25 posted on 08/11/2019 2:55:05 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Does so
I’m NOT throwing out my supplies—collected during the Obama years!

I'm not either. But I did send quite a bit downrange a couple days ago. Will have to spend a few hours at the reloading bench this winter to top off again.

26 posted on 08/11/2019 3:06:58 AM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: gnarledmaw
You would be down to near nothing and have nothing to trade for extra toilet paper.

that is what the still is for.

27 posted on 08/11/2019 4:06:19 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: familyop

My 76 year old sister and 72 year old best friend recently got their concealed carry. My sister got it because she no longer felt safe in her very nice home in its really nice neighborhood. Why? There have been an increasing number of break-ins by people from other neighborhoods. I would actually have to call these “diversity break-ins” as the few that have been caught do not speak English, at least not as a first language.

I asked my friend, who lives in the woods were there is little crime, because it’s just so far from “diversity” neighborhoods why he got his concealed. (He carries all the time now.) He said, “It seems the safe world we grew up in is gone and I feel the need to protect myself.”


28 posted on 08/11/2019 4:11:38 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: familyop
"Researchers interviewed preppers....asked about their motivations for stockpiling food and supplies."

Um, having a Plan B (and C) is common sense?

Because of the "unknown unknowns" - 9-11, Katarina, (didn't see either coming), increasingly shaky financial underpinnings, increasingly shaky societal underpinnings.
Asteroid hits, Yellowstone cauldera, plagues, nuclear exchange, etc.

Why the hell wouldn't someone have some type of Plan B?

29 posted on 08/11/2019 4:19:25 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: familyop

“Journal of American Studies”. Never heard of it.


30 posted on 08/11/2019 4:41:15 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: familyop

Most people are not worried about the End of Time. They are worried about THEIR government coming in and making them prisoners in their own nation.


31 posted on 08/11/2019 4:43:03 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are living in the Last Days. The Bible says so, and I believe it!! Know Him now!!)
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To: Gen.Blather

I grew up in a rual farming community in Wisconsin in the 50s. When you went through town, you would see simple wall displays of the hunting rifles and shotguns through the front windows. There was only one or two police in our town. It seemed that every adult looked out for us kids. The streets were safe. Life was good. We were unsophisticated and unnuanced.

And then liberals came along to “improve life”!


32 posted on 08/11/2019 4:44:37 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: familyop

Boy Scouts taught it: Be prepared.


33 posted on 08/11/2019 5:25:11 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Equine1952
.....why is there a study by someone in England about prepping in America? Americans have been prepping for years...

In response to your comment etc. Having been in England for a short period of time during the very end of the Cold War I found everything in England is smaller then the United States, refrigerates are smaller, stoves are smaller, cars are smaller, houses are smaller, I don't think they even have basements, and few have garages they don't buy up worthless junk at malls, and shopping centers, They just don't have the room to store all that stuff and junk. And because of that they don't have to many malls and shopping centers, They don't go down to the local big box store and buy a 24 packs of toilet paper, or paper towels, or a 24 pack of beer etc at one time, and stuff like that, that Americans are use to buying, they pretty much buy just what they need for day or two at a time, No room for stocking up on stuff, and prepping. Back to the buying toilet paper, paper towels, and beer and stuff in bulk, I doubt if they sell stuff in bulk in England and even if they did they couldn't buy to much stuff at one time/trip because they don't have the big SUV's like Americans do, they have small compact cars, life is so different their that the idea of Americans stocking up on stuff and prepping on stuff like that would be fascinating to people in England and pretty much the rest of the world.

34 posted on 08/11/2019 5:29:05 AM PDT by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: gnarledmaw

Yeah, but other things are more valuable.
When I was stationed on the gulf coast and hurricanes would come in I would lay in a huge supply of batteries.
Then when the power was out for four or five days I could trade batteries for booze.

I made out fairly well.


35 posted on 08/11/2019 5:34:00 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Equine1952
Question, why is there a study by someone in England about prepping in America? Americans have been prepping for years. The pilgrims prepped for winter, citizens prepped for wars and depressions. I know people prepping for the SHTF event now. We always prepped. I hoard precious metals, you know lead, brass, and copper among other things. I even grow a garden and prep food. I think some of the English are wound a wee bit tight sometimes.

Environmentally, England is a dreary but relatively safer place than the US.

36 posted on 08/11/2019 5:40:35 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: familyop
"Prepping" has been going on for a long time. They used to call it "survivalism." My own guess would be that the inflation and recession and political upheaval of the seventies met up with people selling gold and long-term food supplies to create a culture of preparedness. People who remembered the Depression and WWII didn't want to be caught out. You could trace it even further back, to people building and stocking bomb shelters in the Fifties and Sixties. When "survivalists" got a bad name they were rechristened "preppers" and the movement got a new start.
37 posted on 08/11/2019 5:43:27 AM PDT by x
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To: familyop

Nothing wrong with storing 30 days of provisions for emergencies. It’s both prudent and Biblical. I discovered an old well on my property. I plan to bring back on line. Maybe I’ll add a sweet coconut tincture, bottle it as “South Sea Rejuvenation Miracle” and sell it to people with bald heads.


38 posted on 08/11/2019 5:45:15 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: familyop; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Prepper Ping - Preparing for uncertainty in modern times

"Potential occurrences commonly worried about by preppers include possible economic depressions,
terrorist attacks, cyber-attacks, pandemics, or environmental disasters.

Furthermore, researchers say that frequent recommendations from the U.S. government on how to prepare
for potential disasters, such as when residents of certain communities are advised to stockpile water
in preparation for a hurricane or blackout, have also contributed to the rising number of doomsday preppers in the United States.

..these preppers believe that if the worse were to happen, the government’s response simply wouldn’t be adequate
and many people would be left to fend for themselves."

When even the Federal government encourages prepping for the civilian population,
since that is exactly what the government and military does on a regular rotational basis,
encourage your family and community to do the same.
Consider the recent events in Venezuela and Puerto Rico to be a 'learning experience';
when demand exceeds availability, the government, medical, and human services just shut down.
Our grandparents didn't believe in Doomsday Prepping, they called it being practical, prudent, and wise !

39 posted on 08/11/2019 6:50:39 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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It isn’t just the diversity crowd. It’s everyone. We had a white meth head who jumped the fence and refused to leave our backyard a few months ago. No sense in calling 911 since LEOs are always an hour away. LEOs also don’t want to come to this area because they don’t want to upset the tourists and their $$$$$ so we’re on our own.

The closest town has had a huge uptick in crimes. Some from illegals but the majority is from rednecks and crazy females.


40 posted on 08/11/2019 7:00:31 AM PDT by bgill
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