re: #305 Decatur Deb

Their thinking goes back at least as far as the 1950’s fallout shelter fad, through the Clinton-era militias, Y2K survivalists, and now the Preppers. Earlier than that it blends into the frontier Injun fighter mentality. We’ve always had them.

Go back farther and you find the persistent scare-mongering and collapse fantasy about slave rebellions. Which are eerily reminiscent of the Freeper fantasies about how “urban minority youth” will turn into a violent mindless mob that has to be shot down, should welfare ever end.