There's a national dick measuring contest going on over who can throw out the strongest anti China rhetoric, Reddit seems fully on board with it, can anyone fill me in on how that's going to benefit the average US citizen.

The military and intelligence community obviously need a constant big bad enemy, otherwise their reason to exist is undermined. It's sad that even on a progressive site like this people fully buy into this. Isn't there a middle ground where you acknowledge that China is not an ally to the west and a bad totalitarian regime, and at the same time think that an deteriorating of relationships isn't beneficial? Seems like a significant part of this site even has a deep yearning for a global military conflict for some bizarre reason.