As our world progresses and changes there will be shifts in our political structure and the way in which parties approach issues. There has been some risk of a GOP split brewing for some time. Read the article Republicans Confront Divide and consider a few others such as GOP Stay Neutral, Republican Split, Two GOP Parties? They provide some of the changes in the underlining shift in ideology between Old Guard and MAGA. If they have enough similarities to stay together they will be fine but if one is splitting the group on purpose then we will have three parties (Likely 4 or 5 someday if the GOP splits. That is not a good or bad thing. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. We have little prior experience in such a system. As long as these parties stay focused on certain philosophies versus breaking into religious, clan, or other sects that create identity beyond political beliefs we should be ok. No one knows the future but an unbalanced three party system will shift to balance themselves out eventually as alternatives to each other {Its not one for one but a general shifting as people find the place they are most likely to rise to political "fame and fortune!" Ok...not what politics is supposed to be! 💁}. i.e. why Republican and Democrat Parties are relatively balanced in society and how that sometimes causes issues with voting effectiveness. A three party system will require much more debate and alternative options for people. That will likely turn out ok as long as party to party movement is relatively fluid. Maybe nothing happens and we/they rectify.).
Let me say in the spirit of transparency that I'm a light Right with lots of liberal friends (It makes me more or less Old Guard). I'm also very much in the middle of religion and spirituality and believe that there are many paths to the same place so I'm not a far R or far L anything else. So I'm not going to talk about this from an ideological staunch standpoint where only one opinion is correct. My neutral philosophy is Democrats sometimes have good ideas, sometimes Republicans have good ideas, but mostly we miss the best ideas because of political nepotism (Kind of makes me a neutral person somewhat skeptical of some of the assumptions of both parties. Duck! Here they come all the tomatoes and hate messages and emails. 🍅 😅 Its actually not funny and sort more on the disturbing side we are so party leaning.)
Either way, there are some shared things between all Republicans that include debt and the strength of the military (Not that anyone has a great idea yet on how to innovate and improve the supply chain. The problem with asking the same small group of people.). Likely, there are things such as world philosophy, conservative values and business/economic approaches that sort of tie these groups together. Whether it is enough similarity to keep everyone sort of focused on complementary ideologies and goals remains to be seen.
If a GOP split occurs it is not the first time in history, and from a political standpoint, it is somewhat common. There is a good chance its going to happen at some point in American history anyway and has done so in the past. Yet, there is some opportunity to mend some of the differences. Some of them we cannot mend. Sacking of capitals is a no no in any system when we have peaceful political pathways to deal with issues without political violence. Barring insurrection and other illegal behaviors, the rest of it is more or less a matter of debate and we as a society need to determine the overall approach (immigration, boarder wall, taxes, economic policy, etc.)
*Remember that these articles are just food for thought. They could be wrong and if someone says "You are wrong! Wrong!" one might retort, "Ok. Your right!" (...at least trying to understand they cave by which they see it. To them they are right and to me I'm never sure I'm really ever right.😵) and then continue to try and make my world a better place anyway by continue to use logic, reason, and a sense of humanism to see my world.
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