That’s the most pessimistic interpretation of my point. And not an unreasonable one. I notice you’re the only person who picked up on my earlier comment. Which is not a criticism of you, but rather noting that everybody else is rushing ahead to the fun part of rearranging the deck chairs not having laid their foundation of stopping the ship from taking on water.
Here’s a (little) more optimistic take.
I think that the USA or Texas or CA could readily be governed successfully under the current system or the Canadian system or some other comparatively minor tweaks to what we already have. After all, we did it mostly successfully for 200-ish years and little about human nature has changed in that time.
Provided we can eliminate the baleful influence of active anti-social anti-government propaganda and enhance the overall educational level of the citizenry above “barely literate”.
I’m not so naive as to suggest that if everybody just had a bachelors in government or history or even a STEM topic we’d all agree and Kumbaya would become the new national anthem. But an ill-educated, unsophisticated, locally non-diverse mass of humanity being actively hijacked by both commercially-motived and politically-motivated propaganda (both foreign and domestic) doesn’t stand a chance against the combined onslaught.
That problem is at least addressable in part. Not quickly or easily, but it can be done. And IMO must be done.
Any attempt to actually tinker with our governing arrangements with the current populace, both the ordinary schmos like you and me and the current crop of so-called elites, is IMO doomed to make things worse not better. Proverbially: When you’re too drunk to drive, driving faster to get home sooner isn’t actually helpful. Tempting though it may be.