If, at this point, you are doing nothing to prepare for the future, the consequences will be disastrous. I am of the opinion that our future is one of either left- or right-wing authoritarianism. You should be preparing for both. When I say you should be preparing, a couple of things come to mind.
Your short post is a good reminder of what we are facing in the short and long term. I am not going to say anything new here, but, we need to balance living our lives day to day and also preparing for a long term siege-type situation. In the past, people lived from harvest to harvest. This 'just in time' worldwide production system is an anomaly.....more like an aberration. Same thing with perpetual debt. (A bit of trivia: A man could not sign for a mortgage beyond 7 years prior to the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. The 30 year mortgage was his creation. Another reason to despise him and his moldering dried bones.) A piece of ground, separated from the the now unlivable cities by at least 30min by car, some open pollinated seeds in storage, debt-free and a pantry of food for a year or longer, and filled up and refreshed by daily prayer to our Creator is a nice place to be in.
That said, even though I have been preparing like that for years, I am also preparing my mind for becoming a martyr. I am older, but not weak, and I am getting ready for conflict. Having bought the Gen X lie of libertine pursuits when I was younger, I want to take some scalps before I go out.
I am less worried about the Authoritarianism than the instability that is going to happen in the transition to it. I have justified my firearms collecting habit on none of my family being responsible enough to buy their own in case we move into a period of instability. Today I can't imagine the 2024 election not causing instability regardless of outcome at this point. Am i mabye doing a bit of a post-hoc rationalization here? Probably. But now I can give my one person the AK/AR and someone else the SKS if things are looking iffy and a side arm to boot.
Your short post is a good reminder of what we are facing in the short and long term. I am not going to say anything new here, but, we need to balance living our lives day to day and also preparing for a long term siege-type situation. In the past, people lived from harvest to harvest. This 'just in time' worldwide production system is an anomaly.....more like an aberration. Same thing with perpetual debt. (A bit of trivia: A man could not sign for a mortgage beyond 7 years prior to the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. The 30 year mortgage was his creation. Another reason to despise him and his moldering dried bones.) A piece of ground, separated from the the now unlivable cities by at least 30min by car, some open pollinated seeds in storage, debt-free and a pantry of food for a year or longer, and filled up and refreshed by daily prayer to our Creator is a nice place to be in.
That said, even though I have been preparing like that for years, I am also preparing my mind for becoming a martyr. I am older, but not weak, and I am getting ready for conflict. Having bought the Gen X lie of libertine pursuits when I was younger, I want to take some scalps before I go out.
I am less worried about the Authoritarianism than the instability that is going to happen in the transition to it. I have justified my firearms collecting habit on none of my family being responsible enough to buy their own in case we move into a period of instability. Today I can't imagine the 2024 election not causing instability regardless of outcome at this point. Am i mabye doing a bit of a post-hoc rationalization here? Probably. But now I can give my one person the AK/AR and someone else the SKS if things are looking iffy and a side arm to boot.
Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.