I do not believe there is an answer as the US is a corporacracy.
Money as free speech has negated anyone of value from the US congressional fold.
In the present system no one with any sense would want the job. And if you want it, you’re probably not fit to have it.
And another obstacle from the OP on educating future citizenry: Only 53 percent of social studies teachers in 2019 believed it essential to understand such bedrock constitutional principles as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances, compared with 64 percent who thought so in 2010.
Lind: American elites chose this nightmarish order, often over and against the preferences of voters of both parties.