It's Sen.-elect Markey now

And a two-party system is starting to look like not such a great deal either (nationally speaking).

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
~John Adams

Washington wasn't too hot on parties in general and said so in his sign-off from the Presidency:

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Probably getting the immense gobs of money out of campaigns and having more than 2 parties that are forced to deal with one another in continually evolving coalitions, like a Parliamentary system, would be a bit better.

Not having regularly scheduled elections would help cut down the campaign season as well and get these assholes off the tv, radio and my phone. Other countries do this and they seem to survive it. Not so sure we're going to survive our current political system, sadly.