In terms of the 2 party system... (Score 1)

...it sucks!

Seriously, when the founding fathers wrote the Constitution and subsequently the bill of rights, they recognized several factors which could destroy the new nation. One of them was a strong executive branch (i.e. the democracy turns to monarchy). Another was political parties.

The two party system is, as many of us have observed and as even the founders observed, a great danger to our nation.

-Merlyn42