With the Republican Party in shambles right now, one side wants to recover by becoming socially liberal and the other side wants to stick to their values. Will there be a split and a new major 3rd party?
There very well could be. In fact, there's many conservatives that have talked about creating a Nationalist Party.
Voted no, but I would love to see it happen, but it won't because they are too rigid. They are the type (in general) that will go down with the ship because that is less bruising to their egos than admitting defeat.
We need a real conservative party that is still compassionate to it's poor. We need to stop wasting tax payers money saving animals nobody gives a (*)(*)(*)(*) about and save some American hides instead.
The way the Constitution is set up, any split in either of the two primary parties will result in an all-but-assured supermajority for the party that did not split. The first-past-the-post system relegates third party candidates to the role of spoiler almost exclusively. I oppose a split under the current system on the principle that it will reduce opposition in the national political dialogue and will only cause the people who are disadvantaged from the system to say that the system doesn't work with more frequency. Though, hey, I support party-list voting, so it actually benefits my position in the end if they do split.
This is the real answer. And a government is only as good as its opposition. A split conservative vote would be to the detriment of the nation
I doubt it. Sometimes folks just realize there is a right answer and neither party bothers to argue the dissproven position anymore. When it became obvious that segregation was a non-starter, the democrats let go of supporting it. There are a lot of social arguments that are going to go the same way (all the animosity towards gay marriage for example). It's a good thing when political discourse actually arrives at a consensus.
They'll split or die politically. Their ideology is archaic, at best, and completely F'd up, at worst.
In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. ― Dorothy Parker Younger Republicans are increasingly disgusted with the hoary evangelical taliban element of the GOP. As the angry white guys gradually go out with a whimper, tolerance and respect for personal morality will replace the judgmental, statist dogma that many of the old crowd keep trying to foist upon the public, even, insidiously, into the womb. Devastatingly expensive nation building fiascos such as Iraq and Afghanistan and the neoconivers who inflicted them on America will be relegated to oblivion. Science will again be respected as an asset in accommodating the future. The national party will espouse a fiscally-responsible, pragmatic libertarianism, no longer festooning themselves with garlic and whipping out a crucifix whenever the spectre of government by the people gives them the jim jams. They'll embrace a limited role for self-governance, and relegate the would-be Savonarolas to brackish backwaters. . "HEAL!"
It must die to be reborn, the split in the Republican party is to great and that will split this party in half, its a good thing and needs to happen from time to time, its happened to the Democrats in the past. Its best way for the republican party to come together and start working for America again is for them to loose big, it will bring them back to the table because our system works best with two opposite side working together, neither side gets everything they want but the people in the middle get the best we can hope for. What we have now is some rich guys keeping the base fired up so nothing gets done, think I am wrong? follow the money, who benefits from nothing getting done? One side must win big really big for the problem to be fixed in the future, like the stock market there will be some profit taking and adjustments but stronger in the long run. River
There will be no split. There may be a takeover. The problem with the idea of a split is that whichever side retains the name RepublicanTM will keep all of the power, regardless of how many actual people support the other side. This is because the Rs and Ds have rigged the game so that they are automatically on every ballot, but parties without the trademark have hell getting on. So a split-off is a capitulation. The RepublicanTM party must change, or nothing changes.
