Ive been prepping'
Those of you who been preppers for decades, you've seen more crises, threats, events, economic highs and lows, so I feel you're a better judge of the current situation.
What are your thoughts on the current global situation from a preppers perspective?
I've been "prepping" most of my life. My mother and father both lived through very hard times (one, The Great Depression, Dust Bowl years and the other was a east European WWII war refugee), so being ready for hard times was just the way we lived.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's and remember hearing the word "No" a lot as a child. No, we cannot get strawberries out of season, they are not in the budget. No, we cannot afford to go on vacation this year. No, you cannot have the designer clothes....
When things would break, you fixed them yourself rather than replacing them or, you just made do without until you could replace them.
Things are very different now. IMHO, most people, who never lived through that kind of experience, have become weak and there are many of those these days. Even amongst the welfare classes, most don't know how to cook from scratch, can't fix or do anything for themselves, they cannot sew, they don't know how to save/invest money. Children don't know how to occupy themselves without a computer, cell phone or video game. Hell, many kids don't get a job until after they are 18 years old.
Most people just assume the things they need like water, shelter, food, clothing...are just always going to be there. They have never known any differently. Worse yet, they have completely lost the basic knowledge and skillsets my grandparents had to get through difficult times. Not just to stretch a dollar but, to provide for themselves the things their family would need to survive. They expect for the government to provide for them. Dependence on government is weakness. A well provided for slave is still a slave.
We have created an unsustainable society and I am NOT talking about climate change. The fact that I must provide that caveat, should tell you much of where we are. We are blinded.
Our government spends more money in one year than it brings in over ten and they have found creative ways of hiding it. Politicians have no honor, no principles and no integrity. Regardless of party, they seek to not only differentiate themselves from "the other" but, to foment divisiveness and hatred within the American population itself and the people are embracing that mentality.
We expect our politicians to find solutions to disagreements when we ourselves are unable or unwilling to do the same!
The nuclear family has been destroyed; terms like "baby Daddy" have replaced "Father" and "Husband". Divorce has become too common, and a life long commitment to marriage, too uncommon.
In short, we have sold ourselves up the river.
This house of cards we have built, WILL fall and when it does, We, The People, will not have the resiliency to provide for ourselves. Instead, we will stupidly turn to those who caused the problem in the first place to fix it.
I give us less than five years.
I remember at one point in the early 2000s I had $2/day for food. 
. I have a good network of friends. When I was off work for a fortnight with covid they were dropping of food/meals/medicine almost daily even though I never asked. ❤
