The United States has a two-party system. The two current parties are well-entrenched with massive networks of donors, bureaucrats, and workers. They are two of the largest and most established non-governmental organizations, if you will, in the world.
Absent actual reforms, the Unites States political system will continue to be run by two parties. Those two parties don’t have to continue to be the same nor do they have to look the same, however. Over the history of United States politics, there have been a large number of political parties. Some have become entrenched as one of the two major parties (most notably, the Democratic Party which, arguably, has been around since the beginning of the two-party system circa 1796) while others have languished in obscurity. Interestingly, the two parties in power have been replaced over time (again, with the possible exception of the Democratic Party); the Federalists replaced by the Whigs and the Whigs replaced by Republicans (and that’s it, those four parties are the basic players in USAmerican political history, no President has really come from any other party).
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