How Self-Reliant Do I Really Need To Be?

I love the ads for survival guides that claim: “They don’t teach this in our schools because they don’t want us to be self-reliant.”

Really?  Who’s “they?” Does anyone really want to prevent you from starting a fire without a match or growing your own food?

Of the 330 million Americans, how many aren’t reliant on grocery stores?  How many feel threatened by suppressive forces that will drive them into starvation?

Even if we have a civil war, where the stupidest and craziest Trump supporters take up arms against the rest of the country, they’re going to have a tough time taking out Trader Joe’s and Costco.