In real terms there is clearly no relationship or even a strong similarity between the two cultures.
Ethnic relationship between the two = ZERO
Religious relationship between the two = ZERO
Known contacts between the two = ZERO
Similarities in architecture, art, etc. = minimal at most, and all accidental when you consider what is involved.
The similaritites in architecture are all physics related. “This works and this here does not”.
The other similarities are common to other cultures.
As far as early colonization of the Americas, I suspect that most of the evidence is under the water of the continental shelf. The seas rose and fell a good amount during the last 200,000 years or so.
What about the sculptures of ELEPHANTS in Maya country?
Single most inexplicable and intriguing detail.
Seems as though that a similar type of argument could be made (partly now and , based on the trend, very soon) for this Nation when comparing it to a time when the Constitutional Republic still existed to present day and/or the abject tyranny in the near future that is now unavoidable.
Let’s see the DNA