Over time the important centers of political power become more-and-more liberal with less and less commensense conservatism as a break.
These centers of liberalism become malignant cancers that spread everywhere. The laws passed in these cities affect not only their citizens, but the citizens in the abutting suburbs, and even those in rural areas far from the "madding crowds".
Even in the most remotest places in some states you are no longer able to own certain weapons, or if you do they need to be registered to one extent or another.
Even in the most remotest areas there are ever evolving land use restrictions for ecological and other reasons.
If the people in the large cities decide not to enforce the laws or protect the borders, then gang members can flow freely even into the most remote areas, e.g. gang members growing marijuana in remote forest areas.
People in the large cities can vote to place the nastier things in remote rural areas where there is less resistance, e.g. unnecessary dams, pipe dream solar collectors, dumps, etc.
You can run, but you can't hide. And in running you have decided to no longer be a part of the political process.
And if you are truly a "prepper" and you post anything at all about it on the internet then I have some pre-IPO shares in a cold fusion technology I'd like to sell you.
If you think your handle hasn't already been associated with your current GPS location you're in serious denial.
So darn what? Bring it on Feds, I’m not scared and neither are my prepper neighbors up here. GPS my handle all you want Feds. Live Free on your feet or die on your knees. I’d rather check out fighting for the Constitution of this Country not bowing down to some jackboot in a large city. Each to his own. I’m to old to be scared of anything the Gov. can do to me anyway. Not looking for ANY fight with the Feds, hell, my old butt would get itself kicked, but but I’ll be dammed if I’m gonna run scared the rest of the years I have left. Maybe I misunderstood your thoughts but I’m fine right where I am at. I worked hard for it.
We’ve checked and the Google Earth maps have our USPS-certified address at several different places, none of them accurate. Spokeo and related types of sites have wildly inaccurate information.
Do they use GPS?
It may actually help that our particular rural area is liberal. Our county gets all sorts of perks.
That all said, the average discussion around here these days is about off-grid sustainability and no one seems to want to be a haven for looters.
IMO, not having an IPhone, not using Google, not signing up for social media, putting any ID or credit card in a shielded sleeve and (inadvertently, in our case) having a professional identity that differs from ones legal name all help. The government, of course, knows where we all are, but they can be confused and maybe even delayed by various means.
I don’t think they are going to come after our essentially pitiful stashes of food, etc. They have high tech bunkers for the connected and will take over stadiums and abandoned malls for the punters, who will be provided with rations from the hundreds of millions of freeze-dried meals they purchased last year. They will just embargo those of us out in the Disadvantaged Areas while maintaining their street mercs in the cities.
We won’t necessarily be safe in our rural redoubts, but we might just pass under the radar long enough for things to settle down.