My fear is not that you’ve left the farm and joined a nation, but that you left the farm and become a vassal of German bankers and French bureaucrats.
The United Colonies that became the United States saw that problem, with Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia being so populous, and the rest of the colonies so small, that they established a co-equal congress, with a Senate made up of two per state, regardless of population size, and a House of Representatives based on population, and an separate administrator, the President, with authority to enforce the laws the co-equal congress passed.
The parliamentary system is good for a single nation, because one side wins and is free to do its will, but in a collection of states forming a nation it has no built-in minority protection with a co-equal but separate branched government, like the United States. The current system puts Germany and France in perpetual charge, as they have the most people, and minority national rights be damned.
“The current system puts Germany and France in perpetual charge, as they have the most people, and minority national rights be damned.”
The EU has a rotating presidency, and unlike the US, has limited military means to prevent members from leaving.
Wyoming is at no less disadvantage than Ireland, with their whole 3 electoral votes.