Our current connected, online, high-tech society offers us conveniences, comforts, and capabilities unknown throughout the vast majority of the history of mankind. Even those of us who live way out in the woods, where the post office doesn’t deliver, can order goods from Amazon or Walmart, knowing they’ll be here in a matter of days. And only 30-some miles away is a huge grocery store where we can buy fresh fruits and vegetables year-round, along with almost every other foodstuff imaginable.
But this is all a gigantic house of cards, and increasingly, people across the political spectrum are becoming aware of just how fragile all this is; They’re taking steps to prepare for the possibility of it all coming apart.
Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of…