Posted on 12/24/2016 6:23:51 PM PST by Windflier
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, many liberals all over America have suddenly become extremely interested in prepping. Fearing that a Trump presidency could rapidly evolve into a “Trumpocalypse”, a significant number of leftists are now stockpiling food, guns and emergency supplies. In fact, even though many had expected a sharp drop in gun sales following Trump’s victory, what actually happened is that fear of what is coming under Trump pushed background checks for gun sales to an all-time record high on Black Friday. The election of Donald Trump has awakened the left to a degree that we haven’t seen in decades, and some on the left are embracing hardcore survivalism without any apologies.
What is ironic about all of this is that on the other end of the political spectrum interest in prepping is probably the lowest that it has ever been in the history of the modern prepper movement. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about how it was like “a nuclear bomb went off in the prepping community“, and nothing has changed since that time.
In fact, since I originally wrote that article we have gotten some hard numbers that show how dramatically optimism about the future has surged among those on the right.
Just before the election, CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey found that only 15 percent of all Republicans believed that the economy would improve over the next year, but after the election that number skyrocketed all the way up to 74 percent.
But among Democrats it is a different story altogether. That same CNBC survey found that optimism about the economy on the left fell by more than half after the election. At this point, it is sitting at just 16 percent.
It would be hard to overstate how negatively many on the left feel about Trump. We have seen many of them take to the streets to angrily protest his election, and according to the BBC others have decided to stockpile food and guns “in preparation for social and economic collapse”…
The libs know how to eat,but fight?Their best move is still run for the border.
It’s funny to watch progs distrust the state.
I take your “Heh...” and double it. Don’t you love it?
It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise - after all their boy has done to push us to the edge...
What is it with the insane media?
I have been watching their crazy commie crap for 60 years but never anything like their panic over Trump.
Much of the prepper? ?food will last 25-30 years. If nothing else, these libs will be set for the results of the next failed Democrat administration.
> “in preparation for social and economic collapse”
They are trying to cause the collapse
What makes me (a little) nervous is that they might actually try to shoot US with those guns. They’re so crazy...they might.
Or when the EBT card machines go down.
It’s the meme of the day, concocted to drive public opinion against Trump, among the uneducated, anyways.
Not sure I believe this. Sounds like the left trying another way to claim victim hood. Those jerks are so afraid of guns and have such an aversion to firearms they don’t have the guts to buy one. A few might buy a gun here or there but 99% of them wouldn’t dare breach liberal orthodoxy.
smart to get their own food instead of trying to come get mine when it hits the fan.
Yeah, after that one reporter claimed PTSD after shooting an AR-15...I don’t find this story believable at all.
I encourage them all to try to buy guns on the interwebs without ID.
Or at gun shows. And get really angry if they get turned down. ;-)
Hope they buy a lot of cheap .22 ammo for the .38 they acquired...
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