Colorado's survivalists are preparing to embrace whatever the outcome is on November 8
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Survivalists, also known as “preppers”, are people who embrace extreme disaster preparedness in anticipation of a possibly imminent total breakdown of society.
The US has a long legacy of survivalist culture, and the archetypal survivalist is a pervasive, familiar stereotype: a right-wing macho-man paramilitary enthusiast hoarding weaponry in a nuclear bunker in the woods, poised to leave society behind and begin a new life “off the grid”.
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