What makes the two party system in the United States firmly exist

I think it is the nationalization of the military, not in the hands of a certain political party, neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has the power to mobilize the military to exterminate other parties, even if ** is the supreme commander, it has to pass the veto power of 3 4 in Congress, which forms a mutual check and balance, and in the final analysis, it is the credit of the US Constitution.

Do you mean the political system or the stability of the party?

The origin of the two-party system in the United States.

When the United States was founded, the founding father Washington and other leaders rejected political party differences, so there was no political party dispute at that time. Soon after the founding of the country, however, two bourgeois parties emerged: the Federalist Party, led by Hamilton, and the anti-Federalist Party, led by Jefferson.

Later, the two factions were divided and reorganized several times until the Democratic and Republican parties were formally established before the Civil War; Later, they took turns in power, formally forming a two-party system. In 1874, the famous American painter Thomas Nast created a political cartoon, using a donkey to represent the Democratic Party and an elephant to represent the Republican Party. Since then, the donkey and the elephant have become the symbols of both parties.

Every year, the two parties use these two animals as their party emblems to campaign, so they are called by the world"The dispute between the donkey and the elephant"。

Historically, the United States has always been controlled by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and has never encountered a strong opponent. Although there have been some important third parties, such as the 1968 American Independence Party candidate George Wallace who won only all the votes; In 1992, billionaire Perrault ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate.

There is no ideological difference between the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States.

So, is there an ideological difference between the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States? In fact, they do not differ ideologically. They are all parties representing the interests of the monopoly bourgeoisie, differing only in the implementation of specific policies.

Generally speaking, the Republican Party advocates a small ** and a big society; It opposes the expansion of budget spending on economic and social matters, but advocates the expansion of defense budget spending. The Democrats, on the other hand, are in favor of more aggressive action to promote social welfare and control corporate activity.

Take this year's differences between the Republican and Democratic parties in spending and fiscal allocations, the Republican Party advocates cutting taxes and returning the fiscal surplus to the people; Democrats tend to spend their fiscal surpluses on new programs in education and health care. When it comes to how to deal with the social welfare system, the Democrats argue that social welfare spending should not be cut, while the Republicans believe that the U.S. social welfare system promotes people's dependence. In this way, the two parties have taken different approaches to some key issues, but this is only a difference in the approach to solving the problem.

Historically, neither of the two parties has ever been sufficiently united against the other; More often than not, there is always a party whose members are more in favor of the majority of the other party. Therefore, in a sense, the political boundaries between the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are not obvious; Of course, this does not mean that there are no significant divisions and debates in American politics.