Middle America's Worldview

Interestingly the Twilight Zone ran "The Shelter" on Sep. 29, 1961. It shows preppers existed as far back as 1961, with the issue of preppers and non-preppers. It's the famous story of the grasshopper and ant. The grasshopper played all the time, while the ant worked and prep. When time came, the ant was able to survive the winter, while the grasshopper suffered.
Socialism wishes to have the grasshopper fed by the working ant, but America was built on ants not grasshoppers.

The show is fascinating to watch, if you have 30 minutes to spare. I only fear this scenario, times a whole town, city, country.

While Doomsday Preppers show the extreme, prepping remains to be simply risk management. I suggest The Survival Podcast, providing great information, without the tinfoil hats.