I've talked with my friends and gotten a very different response:

B. - we're looking into that nitropack food stuff - like a six month supply. Oh, but he works for a large real estate company ... quite scary, IMHO.

S. - dad bought twenty acres in the boonies and filled the house up with guns, ammo, and MREs. We're to head there when TSHTF.

C. - got guns, got ammo, got some other stuff ... wish I had more money.

J. - devout Evangelical, expecting a thunderclap I think, but in the mean time starting to buy and play with various post PO technology stuff.

L. - plotting a move to an organic farming facility in rural Missouri.

T. - house mortgage is small, I'm a scrounger ... you really think we'll see TSHTF on this stuff?

Mom - "You're crazy." But she stepped up her canning just in case.

Haven't broached the topic with baby brother ... he is educated and all, but he just won't go there until it picks him up and slams him face first into the pavement. These guys are all 40 +/- a little bit, except for mom.

So ... people are starting to know something is coming and nothing but humanure is coming out of D.C. no matter who gets elected ...