it strikes me that one of the biggest problems we face is FURTHERMORE a collective inability to speak squarely and seriously about our basic/actual state of play with China: Warfare, if subversive, 'soft'/5th gen, etc.
No Democrat I know has any clue that our two civilizations are in a fight to the death, and even many conservatives who understand it is a parasitic and destructive relationship, often yet fail to openly speak the true fact: China is and has been at War with the USA
, for many years.
Consider; if at the schoolyard, I am hit many times by a bully, does the fact that my hands might be tied behind my back, or that they were hitting e from behind, so I didn't see their face 'in the act', negate the fact that I am 'in a fight'?
The fight IS HAPPENING, and the fight has been war. And its been happening whether We, The People want to acknowledge it or not. We dont want war with China. We never did.
But any country that has done and continues to do what China has done to the USA is a mortal enemy and existential threat to America itself.
China has already done many thousands of times worse(in misdeed,manipulation,deceit,damages,lives) to the US and The American People than Nazi Germany ever did to America prior to the US entering WWII. China's usurpation of Tibet was NOT responded to as Hitler's invasion of Poland was. etc etc.
HOW HAVE THEY BEEN ALLOWED TO ROB US BLIND?
FREELY GIVEN ALL OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, JOBS, INDUSTRIES, WEALTH, BUYING POWER?
There is a total forcefield of Leftist thought which has seeped into our society, and which makes it almost impossible for the American citizenry to collectively see and speak truth on certain issues, in this case, it prevents us from collectively assuming the proper footing (defensive/war posture) against this singularly nasty and entrenched enemy, China, and all her decrepit criminal tentacles both domestically and abroad.