Generally falling in line, yes. So far. Up until 2 years ago, I'd say the MSM had an easy time of it, because the disconnects between narrative and reality weren't where rubber met the road for most folks.
Today, the gas pumps speak in a language few can avoid "hearing".
Personally, in my home, the disconnects have been met with denial. And every/any thing I do or say that smacks of "prepping" in any way, it is a challenge to that "safe-space" denial, hence the friction the gulf.
Can I take this domestic disaster to be emblematic of national tensions, simply a different larger scale?
Again, MSM has had a relatively easy time "bridging the gap" in past years.
But has their success planted the seeds of their own downfall?
Will we have to witness cattle cars stuffed with people headed to "re-education" camps for some "critical mass" to coalesce into the same (minority) faction that defied the Crown back in 1700's?
Who knows.
But I'll be taking delivery of a Mavik Pro Platinum and will likely fit it with a 3k thermal camera to enable aerial patrol at night on an established flight path. A security force multiplier for lone preppers, good. Expenditure that affirms possibility of anything evil happening, bad.