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I've never heard this before. The US has "left" and "right" like everyone else, not that I don't consider those terms entirely based on imaginary association. I always found it intriguing "left and right" is a scale but policies themselves are seen as binary. Just because the "left" does not come across as represented in this particular culture does not silence them, at least not at the moment.
This is because there is no true left in the US.
The American left has moved so much towards the right that it is mostly centre to right
You say that as if there aren't people of every political view in almost every country and/or that the US is weeding them out. What the representation trends say do not speak for whether there has always existed those of viewpoints further down a scale. Marxists, Communists, and Socialists, both appreciated and not, can be found scattered across US traditional history and coloring the geography of some of the fifty states, such as parts of New York and Vermont and in Louisiana where Huey Long was once a governor who fell just short of being considered Communist. There is indeed a community in the US that one might call "the true left", even if the people who end up elected are generic politicians. It sounds much like the "non-Roman-pagan philosophies didn't exist in Rome" view.
What the OP's question is referring to is whether or not there is an organized political movement of any real size or structure that represents leftist ideology (which at minimum I describe as anti capitalist). In the 2 major parties, there is not. Full stop. Of the lesser parties which have a snowballs chance in hell of actually getting real power? Probably not. Greens bad Dem Soc are not explicitly anti capitalist as far as I'm aware.
There are certainly what might be called organized political movements of that kind, even if they aren't at the top of their game, which like I said resembles the Roman analogy I gave. There will always seem to be something that sticks to the leadership, something that sticks to certain commoners, and things that are unlike either one to do. It's a democratic republic, there will always be the unsung people, this isn't striking or anything to be ashamed of. All have different supposed degrees of conceptualizations of capital, which isn't uncommon even in Marxist countries, many of which retain some aspects of that policy sphere, something I say in connection to where I mention how intrigued I am that "left and right" is a scale while each individual policy is built on "yes" or "no". You may have heard the common adage "China is becoming more capitalist while America is becoming more socialist", and the American Democrat Party was in fact in one of the Communist Internationals if I'm correct.