Does the Dominance of the Democrat and Republican parties endanger US democracy?

Does the dominance of the Democrat and Republican parties endanger American democracy?

Politics of the USA
Matt Jackson

The role of parties within the American system has been an ambiguous one since the first days of the American Republic, when the then vice President John Adams’ commented “The greatest political evil under the constitution was the division of the Republic into two great parties, each under its leader.” This seems to suggest that a full examination, of the role the party would play within American democracy, was not on the minds of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton when they fought to create the first major party divide since independence, namely that of federalist and Jeffersonian approaches to government in the United States. From these early tensions have grown a culture of partisan fighting between two central groups, which if not from 1789 has definitely been the case since the conclusion of the Civil War. It is from this context that America h...