[like_any_other]

By 'America', do you mean the landmass controlled by some administrative entity that calls itself the US government, or do you mean some group of people?

> It’s a pity some people can’t think of politics as possibly more than zero sum. A good policy should actually lift all boats.

That there are such policies doesn't mean one can ignore the zero-sum ones, or the downright hostile ones, as the Uyghurs could tell you.

[zachf]

I mean the people and land area governed by the United States Constitution, a document that provides explicit protections against the kind of ethnostate policies you are so worried about.