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That's called a 2 party system. What you seem to wish for is an omniparty system, which in a dialectical anything with competition for electoral victory can't exist. And if you don't like this, you won't like a 1 party system, like in USSR (deceased) or China.
Ranked choice might help. I've noticed that support and distaste for that seem to be about similar between R and D supporters in English-speaking Web, but I live in Russia, so it's just my blabber.
Also the way it is now you have generally red and generally blue and mixed areas, while with ranked choice there might suddenly be raising friction in politics, which in turn might cause upheavals. And with the way everyone on the Web seems to like potential violence, probably not the best idea.
And I have thought in the past about all kinds of potential balanced systems, with pseudo-random choice of representatives, with balancing that and electoral and literally bought places, with various veto schemes, and it's possible to design a political system doing exactly what one wants, it's just that nobody is in power to make that and impose it upon others, and in rare situations where such a non-compromising new electoral system creation happens, it's something like Russian Civil War where the winning side designed a political system where you can technically (mathematically) have guaranteed victory with 3 levels of representation, 2% of votes and gerrymandering.
That's not very good. That illustrates how those having power to single-handedly change things are not usually those you'd want to.