“America’s Burning” is more of an argument than a journalistic-style documentation of a country seemingly so bitterly divided, politically and culturally, that it could lead to civil war.

The argument that director David Smick makes by marshaling the testimony of the likes of Democratic campaign manager James Carville and political columnist David Ignatius is as complex as its solution is simple.

The division, as the film lays it out, is rooted in the economic upheaval of the past 40 to 50 years that amounted to a massive transfer of wealth and power to the rich and corporations, who, acting solely out of their own interest, hollowed out the middle class and devastated rural America and cities that were manufacturing centers.

That created resentment of and anger toward the elite, which mixed with never-resolved racial and cultural tensions to create the Red/Blue battle, that for the past couple of decades has played out in ever closer, ever more contentious elections — at the local, state and federal levels.

The solution proposed — which, to be honest felt like it plays directly into the Kamala Harris presidential campaign even though her candidacy couldn’t have been known when the movie was made — is to redirect economic policy away from favoring the rich and corporations and bolster the middle class.

The other part of the solution is illustrated by a Black Lives Matter activist who went to a MAGA march in Washington and ended up speaking to the crowd. While he didn’t necessarily change any minds, he and many of those in the crowd connected and listened to each other, finding commonality rather than difference.

And Carville, who is as good a political analyst as there is, makes perhaps the most important observation as to how the country can become more unified — by straight-up demographics.

Those under 40, Carville says, are far less divided than those in their 50s, 60s and older. So when the old folks get out of the way in the next decade or so, coming together will be far easier.

Narrated by Michael Douglas, the film incorporates film and video clips that date back to Hitler and are as current as 2023, interviews with the experts and, not so successfully, a series of made-up TV broadcasts that imagine what would happen in the lead-up to and during an American civil war.

That war would be economic, not militaristic — taking up arms against the U.S. government would last about a day. But it’s still hard to see how such a civil war could actually happen.

That said, “America’s Burning” does make some important points about the division of America and proposes some solutions that are far easier said than they will be accomplished.