What are the two major political parties today?

Why are political parties important? select all that apply. so a country's leadership can understand where the country is headed. issues can be debated on and decided with a party then offered to the public. a country is not subject to the whims of one person who maintains absolute power. stances on issues remain somewhat flexible and allows a country to change its mind about the direction it wants to go as they go through the voting process. a coalition government is as strong as a two party majority government.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

What has contributed to the growth of agriculture as big business in the midwest