No it doesn’t. I think you’re projecting onto me.
Most city dwellers are liberal, most liberals loathe prepping, and guns. But not all.
Vice versa for rural areas. It will play out much like I said, majority of city dwellers will not survive due to these facts. Most rural dwellers will. But mostly because city dwellers rely on food arriving to stores on time, and clean city water. Rural areas have wells, more gardens and livestock. My statement MAY have been an over exaggeration, but I don’t think so. Most people fleeing the cities will either take over less populated rural areas, or get shot. Some will help their friends and families who live in rural areas. Those will be the ones that survive.
Anyways, in any case the more secluded areas that are less densely populated will be where the majority of survivors are located. In a major catastrophe.
I don’t think I’m wrong here. I’m sorry that you have that image. But the majority of survivors will be preppers, people that can defend themselves, and people that can live off the land. Some city dwellers will bug out, but if you stay in a metropolis, your chance at survival probably drops to around 10-15% in a major nationwide or global catastrophe just where food and water are cut off for a month or longer.
If the infrastructure is as strained as Joe Bastardi says it is (which is an “if”) then the reality of the situation will be probably somewhere in the middle.
Preppers will of course ride it well. The urban population won’t. This is true.
But what will most likely happen (again if it’s as bad as he predicts and he’s only one man so let’s put this in perspective) is that rolling brown outs (not blackouts) will affect urban centers for days at a time not weeks or months. (I mean this isn’t like the movie “Day After Tomorrow” for goodness sakes) so there will be power loss for many people yes. More than “need” to will die, but of simple exposure not lack of food and certainly not clean drinking water.
These greater deaths will be twisted into a justification for more “green” energy plants nothing more. Bottom line: it will cost more money to heat your home. The people who are marginally not on welfare will be pushed into government dependence because they won’t be able to afford these greater costs for energy.
So really this plays right into the left’s hopes. They will get more slaves of the State (and more “dirty humans” dying). A two-fer.
It’s potentially more insideous and subtle a threat to liberty. It won’t cause Civil War II though, or anything like that. At least not directly.