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Re:Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia... by dragonwriter on Monday May 22, 2023 @08:22PM (#36038375)
> Two-party dominance has been a feature of the American political scene since before the Civil War

Really, since America had a meaningful national government with the Constitution rather than being a loose federation of states under the AoC.

The Federalists and Democratic-Republicans both were establisged, as was their duopoly, by 1792.

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Re:Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia... by int_19h on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:20AM (#36041458)
Indeed; I just didn't want to get into the whole debate about whether the replacement of the Whigs with the GOP as the other dominant party was a meaningful change or not. But it's safe to argue that the present system, including the specific parties in question, has been around for >160 years now.
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