>>942602they tend to repeat partly similar talking points and often have opportunistic partnerships with them.
>instead talk about what conditions lead to people to having these sorts of conversations and what they signifyI'm not sure exactly what you mean, maybe you should give an example
The reason I said it's mostly alt-right disguised as libertarian is pretty simple. Take Ben Shapiro, I know he's not a prepper, but he's well known enough and I'll use him to make my point.
He used to simply be against gay marriage i.e. the government should not allow it. Now that culturally gay marriage becomes more accepted and it looks like over time it's legalization will become more widespread, he changed his position to something more libertarian, namely the government shouldn't be involved in marriage at all. It should just be a cultural rather than a state institution.
There's a group of conservative people who basically recognize the same situation just more broadly, that the time where the cultural values that aligned with their preference were imposed upon the rest of the population seems to fade and in turn they seek refuge in libertarianism which would allow them to discriminate however they like in their life, both privately and business related, because even civil rights laws are a form of state intervention and tyranny.
Now out of that bit of right wingers shrouded in libertarianism there is a small group who take that to the extreme, wanting to be independent of the government, which is their motivation for prepping.
There are of course preppers who primarily do it because of some kind of government paranoia or because they genuinely believe in a "shit going down" situation where it'll come in handy, but they are in the minority or rather you'll have a very hard time finding preppers that don't harbor any of the aforementioned "conservative concerns". Some don't let it show on the surface, but after a little digging they usually reveal their true colors.
