America (USA) is as United as N. Korea (DPRK) is a Democratic Republic. Hard truth: America is not United at all as evidenced by its refusal to update its obsolete electorial college system for Presidential elections because this allows state partisanship and the continued political polarisation of America. (Electorial college system to select senators remains valid however). I think that in the 18-19th century, the USA president was not so important to states because he dealt mainly with foreign affairs and states were mostly locally governed with little central control, so despite inter-state political polarisation, America could still function because relative to landmass and communication methods, there was still so much unexplored territory to explore into. (Fastest mail service (pony express) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express in 1860 took 10 days and telegraph service wasn't even available yet). Today however, a coast to coast plane flight takes just over 3 hours and people can conveniently organise mob raids on capitol hill, cheered on by a sitting President (Trump) who had lost the 2016 popular vote. As I understand, there is little interest by either democrats nor republicans to upgrade the USA presidential election system into a popular vote form, because on either side, state legislatures want the states to remain polarised as either pure republican or pure democratic and possibly their constituents are either blinded by their own bias or want to maintain the polarised presidential electorial college system to maintain their own states extreme partisan status and thus resistant to the ideas or communication with the opposite camp. The USA is thus a very polarised country on the verge of civil war because it is run by 2 separate political ideologies with very little intention of speaking nicely to each other and instead do battle in the courts (like how Donald Trump side scurrilously accused the 2020 elections of being 'stolen') and also justified his encouragement of mobs 6th January 2021 storming of Capitol Hill using a multitude of social media options on a large scale. The Americans are thus still a rather tribal, quarrelsome people with a perchant for guns and other heavy weapons (like aircraft carriers) which they send across the world to terrorise states with smaller armies and fewer weapons. It is known that the USA has proportionally, one of the world's most people serving in jail. The two political divides trive in polarising their respective populations and have no interest in Uniting America seem to be in a common conspiracy to divide America to advance their own selfish self interest and unfortunately this polarisation has reached such extremes that mobs had no qualms storming and attempting to demolish capitol hill, the seat of democracy and checks on the president himself. Just like North Korea names itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea is about as democratic as the USA is United. Both are fraudulent names too false to deceive the international audience and all people of the world can just wait a little longer to see these self deluded or deceptive states collapse into themselves. Until and unless America can return to democracy by having a true popular vote elected president elected, it will remain a weak state driven by its own internal prejudices, stereotypes and bias destroying democracy and further dividing the people. America is a politically disunited country, the world is weakened under its rule.
If we want a government beholden to raw majorities, then we ask for a purely direct Democracy. I find this troubling because it not only spits on the design of our bicameral legislature but it also operates from the notion that what is popular is what is good. This is a very Rosseau-esque take by my view and I find little difference between his view of liberalism and the view of Marx's Communism. It all boils down to this: does the individual have rights that may impede the State? If yes, then we must reject that particularly "liberal" expression of political philosophy. That's collectivism as I understand it.
America should be divided into two distinct separate Countries so that progressive liberals can run their country, their way, and pay for it themselves, and Genuine Americans can run their Country, their way, and pay for it themselves. In 6-months progressive liberals will be demanding that everyone else cede their Rights and pay for the problems that progressive liberals create because, the world is "a collective."
