I just found out that in the US if you shift states you have to register for voting again.

That's so bonkers, that information should be transferred shouldn't it? Or go to some sort of portal and check mark the state you're going to be residing in.

I really grapple with the realisation that the US is more a collection of countries than one whole country

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There's a lot of stuff that should be handled at the national level and dissolved at the subnational level, but most of us here in the US are not rational at all, many of us are just trying to stymie democracy at every possible turn, in the name of Jesus, the dollar, guns, or whatever.

The concepts of a quantity ("states' rights", "dry counties") or an inanimate object (flag burning) often have more rights than living, breathing, individual humans in the US as well. It's beyond absurd.