Ts the two party system the reason for the vast divide in the US today?

Is the two party system not allowing the issues to be resolved but instead causing greater friction even outside of the political arena? In many other countries multi party systems force legislators to form coalitions to resolve issues using give and take. Would that work better than large parties with varing degrees and factions in them? We have a vast array of minor parties, but is it enough? Would it be better for more minor parties to come about or for more citizens to abandon the two major parties for more issuecentric parties? here's some examples.... the Education party whose sole issue is improving education, the Green party for environmentalists, the Progressive Taxation party for people who want tax only on consumption as opposed to income, the Potato Union for people who support agriculture and farming, this list could go on and on. ("In todays news the Green Party and Potato Union joined to fight a new bill by the Texas Oil Party that would stifle farmers rights.")

Ts the two party system the reason for the vast divide in the US today?
I've been saying for years that multiple parties would force much more cooperation and the country would be in better shape. Alternatively, mandating that bills must be passed with 60% approval would also significantly increase cooperation and limit the wild policy swings we have every time one of the parties gains control.





In response to the last answer, we don't live in a true democracy, nor should we. The reason we have a republic is to protect the rights of the minority. A true democracy ends up looking like a totalitarian form of government for those people in the minority.
Reply:You got to be kidding. Most countries run by 1 and 3 or more parties make the US congress look like my grannies ice cream socials. Report It

Reply:America wasn't always like this. look at an early 20th century election. tons of other parties competed. The country doesn't have a two party system, but rather two parties make sure that other parties don't gain any power. Report It

Reply:In my opinion the two party system that we have was a necessity when our gov't was formed, because communication was very limited to the people of the U.S. and news certainly didn't travel fast. Also, life and the processes of it were not quite as complicated and diverse as it is today. Although our govt toted as the best in the world by many..(and of course the most hated by many as well) it seems to me that there is always room for improvement. I think that with the technology available in today's world, that a true democracy is certainly attainable. when I say a true democracy, I mean that every person's input is readily and easily available. Couldn't the voting process be made more accessable to all people with the advent of the web and wireless commuinicatons ....not only voting for candidates, but for all facets of our government. Isn't a democracy supposed to representative of the people. I think it is a shame that with todays technology, that the system does not allow for more involvement by the people. We rely on a limited number of politicians of which our choices are limited, who have turned our gov't into some type of corporate power game, making decisions based on greed and getting votes (job security), turning our votes to elect them as proof the people have spoken by electing them meaning that their agenda must be more popular, when in all reality...the percentage of voters to people able to vote is severly skewed...I think if we used the communications technology available to make voting more readily available to the people, we could make changes that are more representative to what the people want and possibly change the attitude of our country in general. In answer to your question...yes...a large reason
Reply:money is the reason...the money grubbing politicians....get rid of lobbyists and campaign donations...