“Maybe endure the same privations that his constituents are suffering through? “
It’s not obvious that the Grid doesn’t have 100% reliability/availability?
What should a person at all inclined to [American exceptionalism,] self-sufficiency do to be prepared?
[Oh, THAT’s right, the Boy Scouts are unAmerican. Being Prepared is now unAmerican].
You’re 78 on dialysis and now you’re freezing to death without food or drinking water and you have no access to a life-preserving treatment.
Are you a failure for not being prepared for an easily preventable government-made disaster?