I fall into prepper habits in some ways. I don't prep for the gov't to collapse, though. I prep for my own personal world to collapse. What if I lose my job? How long can I string my family along on little or no income? What if we have a 3 week power outage? Will my family be reasonably comfortable or will they fall apart like most people do? I grew up dirt poor. Can I do that now with a family to support? Stuff like that.
I don't keep 6 months of food around. I keep about a month, rotated, just because that's how I live. If we have no electricity for a month? Well, we've done a week a couple times in the past 2 years thanks to a crappy grid, and we were okay. We had no hot water which got old so I built a water heater out of a 55 gal drum, 150 feet of garden hose, and my firepit. That was a good learning experience and it worked well for us. We had running warm water on demand so long as the coals were hot.
The one thing I fear more than anything is an extended power outage during the winter. It gets really cold here in MA and my oil furnace has powered blowers. It can't function without electricity. I looked into having a wood fired backup installed but the house just isn't designed for it. There is no Code way to put a wood stove into my house for under 4k. Now I'm looking into propane as a backup system. That might work but I don't have good insight into the storage requirements yet.