So why did we send our manufacturing, technology, and money to a communist country?
Yes, we. Clinton, Gore, and Biden were on board with the trade deals with China, but most of its support came from the right, including many Freepers.
That's what really destroyed our country. Increased pot use, Joe Biden, the student loan bailouts, and a host of other ills were the results of that.
What do you mean by "we?"
Nobody on this forum agreed with sending jobs overseas to the Chinese.
The "them" who did this were the on-the-take politicians such as those whom you mentioned... Clinton, Bush, etc., all corrupt swamp rats.
They did it for money.
But you are mixing up apples and oranges.
The Chinese have the drug trafficking mission to obliterate our youth (now geezers of course) AND they also have another mission and that is to get every politician on the take or blackmailed so that they do crazy suicidal things like open the borders and ship off all manufacturing to China.
It is a multi-pronged approach.