Jim Taylor
Building a bit on what Waterboy said below ...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020, 07:55

I lived under a Socialist/Marxist government for 6 years.
For the most part, people still do what normal people do ... try to make a living, feed their families, get their kids in School .. no matter what the obstacles.

No, they do not have the freedoms we have enjoyed, but neither do we. Ask any old fart who was born in the 1930's or 40's and they will tell you how much things have changed.

As Waterboy said, none of us are guaranteed tomorrow. We can worry about tomorrow but tomorrow is only an imagination until it arrives ... and we don't know what is really going to happen until it does.

Preparation for difficulties is good. Do not forget spiritual preparation. Without that component your preparations will not be sufficient, no matter what we may face.

Back in the 1970's when the "prepper" movement got going in earnest, one of the leaders of the movement who wrote books and gave lectures on how to prepare had a cabin fully stocked in Mexico and one in Colorado. He thought he was ready. Then he had a heart attack and died. I often have wondered if he had done his spiritual prep work.