Is the two-party system dying? As an individual who so desperately wishes it would, I'm here to offer you a resounding and emphatic... No. Why? Didn't the founding fathers despise political parties? Didn't George Washington consider political parties the enemy of democracy? Well, yes. Alexander Hamilton called political parties "a most fatal disease", James Madison denounced parties lest we fall victim to the "violence of faction'', Washington feared overly successful parties would create "frightful despotism".