I, myself, am a prepper and I can honestly sympathize with Cassandra. Because if the USA's tyrant gets his way and things go south here, it's going to be me, and others like me, that will have our supplies, our seeds to grow food, and help where we can, and when we can't, people will get angry. They'll likely try to bulldoze the garden and strip the house bare of everything that's here, before burning the whole thing to the ground. Thinking I was wealthy and was hiding everything from them, instead of just seeing that I was sharing what I could spare but still trying to care for my family just like everyone else.

Mob mentality at its worst. Everyone was warned, no one wanted to listen. Then the thing they were warned of happens and they immediately scream and blame the persons that gave the warnings instead of blaming those that caused the problems. That's how it's always been. There's a reason I have a massive stockpile of heirloom seeds, enough to grow entire fields of food, and made sure those stockpiles are very carefully kept.

That is why we preppers warn each other, when shit hits the fan, we're likely the very first people others are most likely to target. We try to respectfully warn. We try to teach people how to be prepared for emergencies and what supplies they should have. And it's always the same story "You're paranoid nothing will ever happen, it's always going to be status quo". Then when something does happen, it's all the same song and dance over and over again "No one ever warned us." And the mad scramble begins.

And while some preppers ARE paranoid, dangerously so, there is a wisdom in that old adage "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" after all.