Can someone please explain why we still use the two-party system?

Because having idealistic opposition is preferable to a dictatorship, especially to Americans.

Quick history lesson - we tried to have a 'no party system' when America first started. George Washington spoke about the problems of having political parties. We got them anyway. Why? Because having two or more idealistic views is too much part of human nature. We naturally have different views. The amazing thing isn't that we have more than one political party. It is that we only have 2 'big' parties.

Our elections are winner take all rather than the proportional system used in some European countries.

It takes organization and money to run for office. Once in awhile, a third party may become big enough to gain a few seats, and the structure of the two parties are not that rigid. They can split, reform, etc.

Also, just try and gain support for a bill in Congress, if there were no political parties. Certainly you don't believe that all bills are considered based on their merit!

Because enough people don't have the stones to vote for an alternative.

Case in point. If I don't vote for the GOP offering, their logic is that I am, in effect, giving the election to Obama.

I am doing no such thing. If the GOP fails to provide me with a candidate that I support, I will seek one elsewhere.

Nothing sickens me more than a winning candidate in a two-party system assuming that everyone voted * for * them. Most likely, a healthy chunk of the votes were * against * the other person.

It's less of a official system than it is a reflection of the cultural make up of the country. The alternative is a disperse group of parties with a lot more radical representation. The two party system keeps political view relatively moderate compared to other countries. What does this have to do with leaders "thinking for themselves"?

There have been third parties, even fourth. Look up president clinton he "won" because there was a third party to split the conservative vote. Two parties is not a legal requirement.

Guess what? History did not start with you. Read some so you know enough to ask a reasonable question.

WE have multiple parties none of them have the money to go anywhere.

Libertarian Party

The Rent is to Dam High Party

there is a communist party in the US

There is many of them, there is no law saying the us is only two parties.

Yea but then the globalists would just be handing humanity the win.

"The price of liberty must be paid from time to time with the blood tyrants and patriots." - Thomas Jefferson

It is not the two party system that has done it but the fear and hate mongers like Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, and Glenn Beck.