re: If China is such a threat, why are we doing business with them?

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Both countries need one another to survive. We can never go to war or be at odds with each other, otherwise things would go very bad for both of us.

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While everything you say is true, they’ve been conducting warfare against us for decades. Similar to how the Marxist democrats have been waging war against us while the right plays wack a mole and doesn’t take the high stakes seriously

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That is communism.

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Which is exactly what your Marxist retard self votes for

Because the monetary policy decisions made since we got off the gold standard have not been about making America better, but making it wealthier.

Wealth is good, but wealth can mean a lot of different things. "We've" focused on the wrong type of wealth at the exclusion of all others. Making line go up is great, but when it happens at the expense of productive Americans - then there needs to be something that justifies that sacrifice in human capital.

Americans went from farms and factories to transaction facilitators. It might put food on the table, but the soul is being sucked out of the people.

We've turned America into a disposable economic zone. Even the people are seen as interchangeable widgets. It's created a drab, ugly earth-toned society of professional thumb twiddlers.

America has lost its way in service of a merchant class of penny-pinchers.

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Boomers should have been asking these questions 25ish years ago. Thanks for letting it get to this point. Along with the cultural destruction by mass importing islamx and Hindus, during that same period.

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The average working class American man was saying these things, but was called racist and summarily ignored. The uniparty drove forward with policies that weakened US sovereignty and independence.

The same things that led to the fall of Rome will lead to the fall of the US empire. We are a decadent and jaded people blissfully heading to slaughter by a corporate class that doesn't identify with America as a culture worth defending. Sold out to people that worship the dollar and elevate feminists, queers, and black queens.

They have us by the balls with respect to some rare earth minerals needed for our weapons.

All China has to do is not invade Taiwan and we could all be friends.

One of the problems is that China is the sole source for many prescription drugs that are manufactured for US. Eample: 90+% of all high blood pressure medication is made in China.

As stated earlier, we should have been decoupling and becoming more self sufficient many years ago

The Democrats in this country have become the greatest threat to our democracy and yet, we still interact with those maggots, right?

Turns out China makes lots of stuff our supply chain cant function without.

Back when the supply chain crisis was ongoing, we learned stuff like caps for jugs and raw materials for filters come from china.

So, even stuff we think of as made in America is dependent on a vital part, even a small part, from China.

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The United States voluntarily chose to enter into this arrangement to reduce labor costs.

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Yeah, but that's like saying that I voluntarily choose to not drink the bottle of Draino under my sink. Technically true, but...

Those of you who think the United States can just pull up the drawbridge and literally become one big inbred country while ignoring the rest of the world are so stupid it gets hard for me to believe it.

China is the 2nd largest economy in the world. Sure, we could have kept paying American factory workers the equivalent of $85,000 a year to stand at a conveyor belt all day and turn a screw, but if we had we would being having a hell of a lot bigger "affordability crisis" than the manufactured one we have today.

What's amazing to me (besides the sheer mathematical stupidity of this narrative) is the acceptance—nay, demand—for leftist protectionist policies as long as blue collar Americans are the (supposed) beneficiaries of it by people who claim to be "conservatives."