I’m not sure. I think the two party system is itself a symptom of a citizenry with very little political education, because ultimately we could exert power collectively if we had the consciousness to do so. There’s a small but very active leftist population in the US, but for whatever reason, we struggle to organize and break into mainstream.
The average American thinks Karl Marx is almost literally a demon from hell, socialism is when free stuff, communism is when government owns everything, and anarchism is when bombs.
Our state legislators, at least here in Vermont, and I’ve interacted with many of these, are generally landlords, and they themselves have little background or even interest in political theory. Our news rarely even covers other countries. As a result, we don’t even have the vocabulary for how things could be different.
I’m actually a dual citizen. I’m currently in Spain visiting my family, and it’s just shocking to me how much better things are here. I come about once a year, and by comparison, the US is just uncivilized. I don’t know how else to put it. It’s a huge comfort to me that I have a place with family and whee I speak the language to escape if/when things finally end in the increasingly inevitable violence that is coming.