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"In rural America people really are self-reliant, I don't mean in small town Walmart America, I mean out where the pavement ends."
I live in a rural area. "Where the pavement ends" covers very very few people in this country. The other 99% really are interdependent. They may like to think of themselves as frontiersmen but really they arent. Think about all the things they take for granted like enough energy to heat their homes (sure you can cut wood but have any of you ever tried to cut enough for a whole winter?) food at the grocery store, medical services, etc. etc.
I have a deer rifle and a shotgun but I am under no illusions that I could easily provide for my family entirely on our own. We might not starve but it would be very very rough.
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