Is there any situation where the U.S could move to a parliamentary system of government?

To be fair, there's no other industrialized nation with the diversity or cultural polarization which exists in the U.S.

Actually, the USA is only about in the middle in terms of diversity. It's ahead of most other developed countries, although there are a few notable exceptions.

  • Canada is extremely diverse and polarized. The west thinks the (previously dominant) Liberal Party has an eastern bias, Quebec has a huge independence movement (generally, polls put support at 30-40%) and refuses to even sign the constitution until its recognized as a "distinct society" (among other things). Quebec failed to get its distinct society clause mainly because another culture's issues weren't addressed.
  • Belgium is extremely dysfunctional and ethnically polarized, to the point that it took 541 days for Belgium to form a government after the 2007 election due to Flemish and Walloon parties being unable to cooperate.
  • The UK is made up of four different constituent countries, one of which had 40% of people vote for independence a few months ago. It's also the only stable and developed democracy that I know of where ethnic conflicts caused decades of domestic terrorism.
  • Spain has Catalonia and the Basque Country, both of which have fairly strong support for independence. Basque Country also has a history of nationalist terrorism, something that the USA has never had a major problem with (apart from a civil war over 150 years ago).

The USA is not extremely culturally polarized compared to many other countries. Granted, it's more diverse than your average European country (not counting the examples above and a few others), but there are much more diverse countries out there with more functional political systems.

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