This is definitely a huge factor. A 2 party system is another one. Some founding fathers even wrote against it [1] [1] https://ritholtz.com/2011/07/founding-f

This is definitely a huge factor. A 2 party system is another one. Some founding fathers even wrote against it [1] [1] https://ritholtz.com/2011/07/founding-fathers-beware-two-party-system/ https://ritholtz.com/2011/07/founding-fathers-beware-two-par...