For over two hundred years America has had a two-party political system. However, in George Washington’s Farewell Address, he warns the people about the dangers of having different political parties in the government. As of now, the United States is still predominately a two party system, although there are a few smaller parties outside of Democrats and Republicans. The only issue is that not all of these smaller parties are considered valid in all 50 states. The only valid parties in all 50 states are Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian. The question is, what has splitting into multiple parties done for the United States?

In the current 2016 election there are been plenty of voices from all sides of the political world. Their voices are all over the news, Facebook, Twitter, and basically all other forms of media. A good portion of their time and money is spent not helping people, but trying to eliminate the other parties in any way possible. Isn’t the point of their campaigns to educate the voting people about who that person is and what they are fighting for? It seems anymore that these campaigns are spent degrading and tearing down the other candidates, which in no way helps anyone determine who is different from the other. Their agendas may be different but their tactics are all the same. Many of these tactics are very hateful and have stirred hate into the voting people. Maybe what we need to start doing is voting for people and their platforms instead of a party line.