Well there's your problem, you're seeing a pattern that doesn't exist outside your own imagination. Let's take a look:
Anti-China sentiment is hardly sudden, it's been higher than not since 2011. There was a dip around 2016, when big media went up against Trump who was sanctioning them. The real rise was right at the tail end of 2019, almost like some sort of virulent plague came out of China that was handled poorly....
Anti-China sentiment in general isn't new, sure, but in terms of policy outcomes and with the full support of the political apparatus is, however. An unfavorable rate of roughly 55-45 for a few years before ballooning to 70-25ish is a very big difference statistically as is all the politicians suddenly harping on about the CCP or what not. COVID doesn't explain it either given the trendlines or the like.
What do you mean shades of Neocons in 2003? I literally work in MI, I have to see what kind of threats our enemies are, and China is the big 1 and or 2, depedning on who you ask
Replace China with Iraq in your post and we are right back to 2003 in terms of rhetoric.
Exactly, I believe in freedom, not in advocating evil. So I obviously object to helping evil governments, even when there's profit to be made
Cool, then how come you're only focusing in on China and not the American Capitalists conducting deals with them? It takes two to tango, after all, and that's exactly where our issue is coming up: the CCP/China/etc is the scapegoat while the domestic interlopers are getting away free. You really want to convince me you don't believe in not advocating evil? Get the corporate boards of places like Google, Apple, and the like behind bars for slave labor and the like.
No, it's not a throwback to dislike of Islam, it's a throwback to dislike of Al-Qaeda and other evil. Not all the hate then was misplaced, and it's not now either.
Sure, it wasn't misplaced then and not now either; I don't like China either. Personally, I wouldn't mind to eventually put them in their place, so to speak, geopolitically. The problem is, however, you and the others harping on about this have not stopped to consider why this suddenly has mainstream political support or the consequences therein. 9/11 made going after OBL not only needed but the right thing to do but it also lead to the creation of DHS and the Patriot Act which is now being brought down on average American citizens in force with the January 6th events as the excuse.
Just as the threat of "Radical Islam" was used in the 2000s to build a police state, it seems increasingly clear to me that the Anti-China stuff is in the same vein, be it to further a police state or to have a simple foreign scape goat to deflect anger about domestic conditions to.
Second, I don't care about them being big political players, they are much more powerful. They are big cultural powers in the US, which is much scarier.
They are censoring the movies they release in China or the games they do in China; can you please explain in any way how this is scary or any real issue to Americans who don't get censored products? Even further, can you please explain what makes this exceptional but not our domestic equivalents?
Where is your condemnation of the ADL's Advisory Board, which is doing the same here for domestic audiences?
I think they are some of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard of (I'm selling it a bit strong here, but that's because the depth of stupidity, not from any merit to these ideas). The $2000 checks are the least stupid, just drowning America more in debt. If money must be handed out, do it to people who actually need it, not to everyone.
Which is what is already being done, and since the beginning no less? There never was free money to everyone; we've had income caps since the original CARES Act. If debt is your concern, long term I agree it's not viable, that's why I'm opposed to UBI but in the short term, debt held by the American-controlled Federal Reserve isn't a concern at all, as the Japanese will tell you. Unlike the Japanese, however, we have the benefit of being the world reserve currency.
The student debt relief is just hilarious, as somehow they've managed to sell to the public that they're helping the poor when they give free money to college graduates who in the future are looking to make six figures.
The average salary of a College undergraduate is $51,347 annually.
The $15 dollar minimum wage is a great way to put small businesses out of business as well, especially when they are struggling with the pandemic. But also
any minimum wage is a bad idea that harms the poor.
For example, even a meta study done by a minimum wage proponent found that 80% of min wage studies found an employment loss. And the study finds that this is compounded when looking at low wage jobs and low education workers. And most min wage hikes are nowhere as severe as this hike.
A meta study done by UC-I, meanwhile UC-B
found the opposite in that wage hikes increased pay and have not led to job losses. There's also the
CBO study which estimated 1.4 million job losses but also that it lifts 900,000 out of poverty and raises wages for an additional 10 million workers. If you want to eliminate the minimum wage, sure, we can do like the Scandinavians but in that case you also need to advocate for a dramatic increase in unionization and power.
Also, as a general note, if wages were indexed to productivity the minimum wage would actually be around $25 right now.