Dual Citizenship should be a non-issue.
In non-American news, Australia continues to suffer from the most absurdly stupid constitutional crisis ever.
Their Supreme Court interpreted a provision of their Constitution as prohibiting dual citizens from serving in Parliament. Even if the candidate has never exercised that citizenship and didn't know they nominally had it. The Senate President and several others have been forced to resign over it, and to make it even worse the government only has a one-seat majority in the lower house. So now everybody's lathered up into a hysterical witch-hunt, demanding documentation of the citizenship status of parents and grandparents. One member, the child of a Holocaust survivor who fled Europe during WWII, is being grilled over whether or not he's technically eligible for Hungarian citizenship by descent.
Somebody needs to get Chad, or North Korea, or Fiji, or some other random country to declare all members of the Australian Parliament to be citizens, whether they like it or not. To underline the absurdity of the situation and how nonsensical this interpretation is. Some countries don't even make it possible to renounce citizenship, or make it absurdly difficult to do (e.g. Iran). But now, apparently, every government on Earth has the power to disqualify members of the Australian Parliament at will.
This is also why the United States is entirely right to recognise no such thing as dual citizenship, and the existence of several of them in Congress is a non-issue. You're either an American citizen or you're not... what some other government chooses to call you or what rights they grant you, is between you and that foreign government. It doesn't matter here.
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Here in Mexico, even a dual citizen person can be president. And it should work like in the US if you are a citizen doesn't really matter how you became one you can run for any political office, that's simple if you were formerly a migrant you have passed through exams including history of the country and language so you have proven to care about this country, why not care more and run for office? I don't get it.
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The Australian system is insane. So many rules just to confuse people. People complain about the US but the Australian government are worse in so many ways.
What citizenship do you have @honeybee? I'm guessing you have about 4. Also, where are you living? Based on the contents of your posts, I will have to say the UK.