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Do you believe American society is about to implode and we need to prepare for total collapse?

I've heard evangelicals talking about the rapture and armageddon. Fiscal conservatives talking about impending financial collapse. Tech people afraid of Chinese hackers pulling the plug on American electricity for a month. Newt Gingrich talking about EMPs. Russians concerned about massive asteroids. People afraid that Obama will declare martial law and put people in FEMA camps. DHS buying 1.4 billion rounds of ammo. North Korea threatening us with nukes. There's a lot of doomsday talk. Should I be worried, or is it just overblown hype?

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  • bob
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    No. It's called opportunism. People preying of the ignorant and the gullible to sell their "survival packages." Evangelicals have been talking about the rapture since I was a kid -- and that was a long, long time ago. "Fiscal conservatives" have talking about the impending financial collapse and have been actively trying to bring it about to no avail. People afraid of martial law and FEMA camps -- nothing new. I've been hearing that nonsense from the John Birch Society since I was in college. None of it is new. it's just that modern communication has made this particular kind of nonsense much more profitable.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Internally, american politics and the U.S Constitution make reform impossible, so no societal collapse.

    The Russian asteroid is a once in over a century thing. Forget about it.

    North Korea's a problem, but remember, they won't nuke america or Japan because they know it means outright total destruction of North Korea. Kim Jong Un likes himself too much for that!

    The Chinese are a problem, but your government owes them a lot of money, if they disabled U.S computers, the U.S economy would suffer and China has to wait longer for it's debts to be repaid.

    Obama has no need to put people under martial law+he can't, due to the slow mess of american government.

    Religion is a myth so you don't need to worry about that.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • 8 years ago

    Don't be worried you're listening to to much religous propoganda and listening to way to much religon. The one thing you can worry for are more little wars that'll lead up to a big war. Look at the first world war there were a bunch of small conflicts than a big war. With irag, afganastn, and libya they were just little warnings to something much bigger. But it will not be doomsday history will just repeat itself.

  • More like the Crash of 1929 and the Depression on steroids.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Those people are always whining about that and it never happens. Besides, if society did implode, how long do you think you'd last?

  • Andrew
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Option 2 from your last line.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    When the economy collapses, you can bet that society will collapse. It is good to start preparing.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Smash the crash, sack the Fed.

    Source(s): Its your only hope
  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    no once the GOP is gone the country will recover

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