That was one of the more interesting SOTU addresses I’ve seen. Personally, I think he said most of the things that needed to be said, and he said them reasonably well. I’m sure he’s going to get some flack for attacking Trump directly (though not by name), but I was frankly glad to see it. Doing otherwise makes it seem like it’s just your typical election/political disagreements, but we’re past that now.
There’s plenty of FPTP systems that have more than one party. The US 2 party system is there because of lack of campaign financing restrictions, and, well, corruption.
There are other parties even in the US, but they are not taken seriously because they basically take away votes from the big party ideologically closer to them and so they are marginalized. Appropriately so given how FPTP works.
The election system is the real issue that needs to be fixed, and new finance rules around elections aren’t going to make enough of a dent.
I’m talking parties that take seats. The two party FPTP is peculiar to the US.