Fear and propaganda. The life blood of their party is in pushing the great fear of the big scary thing as a target to push through their rules to make the people safe…

It’s nazis just before the camps go up and the Jews get put in train cars.

Not quite, but they did live through the great depression in the early 1900s, so things like keeping a box of buttons to fix your shirts and a basement full of canned anything on sale where pretty standard.

Well my grandma liked to say waste not, want not. Not much different than heating with dead dinosaurs I guess.