America is Now the Divided Republic the Founding Fathers Feared

[Frodo]

One solution to this hyper-partisanship is by becoming a multi-party democracy with proportional representation:

America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared
John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.” And that’s exactly what has come to pass.

One way or another, we are going to need another constitutional convention -our current system of checks-and-balances and separation-of-powers is failing us. 

[Mr. Smith]

This literally already happened right after The Civil War, and didn't truly get better until The Roaring 20's, and yet here we are.

[Sumner 1868]

This literally already happened right after The Civil War, and didn't truly get better until The Roaring 20's, and yet here we are.

In some respects the parties are reverting to how they were in the Gilded Age, except with postmodernism as the main divide instead of religious conflict.

[President Johnson]

A multi-party system with fractures parliaments isn't the solution and likely to lead to instability with months or years of difficult government formations. Look at Spain or Israel, where current governments are de jure just "acting" for months or years. I wish Germany had a two party system with conservatives and left-liberals as main competitors and a majority vote like the US and UK.

[Hammy]

A multi-party system with fractures parliaments isn't the solution and likely to lead to instability with months or years of difficult government formations. Look at Spain or Israel, where current governments are de jure just "acting" for months or years. I wish Germany had a two party system with conservatives and left-liberals as main competitors and a majority vote like the US and UK.

The US has had a malfunctioning government for the last decade even without factions, so that's not something a two party system would prevent--if nothing it worsens it. 

[darklordoftech]

This literally already happened right after The Civil War, and didn't truly get better until The Roaring 20's, and yet here we are.

In some respects the parties are reverting to how they were in the Gilded Age, except with postmodernism as the main divide instead of religious conflict.

What does “postmodernism” mean in this context?