{"id":19818,"date":"2020-03-02T23:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=19818"},"modified":"2020-03-03T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:44:57","slug":"the-two-party-system-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/the-two-party-system-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"The two-party system is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Cohen<\/a>, Clarkson University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The American two-party system has long been besieged. Many of the founders feared that organizing people along ideological lines would be dangerous to the fledgling nation. Alexander Hamilton called political parties a \u201cmost fatal disease<\/a>,\u201d James Madison renounced the \u201cviolence of faction<\/a>,\u201d and George Washington feared that an overly successful party would create \u201cfrightful despotism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The contemporary U.S. population isn\u2019t terribly keen on parties, either, and tends to give them lukewarm performance reviews. A majority \u2013 57% \u2013 of Americans believe that parties do \u201csuch a poor job<\/a>\u201d that a third major party is needed, and only 38% think that parties do \u201can adequate job.\u201d<\/p>\n