Necessary Splits

 Should things hold as they are now, then the following separations are necessary.

First, should Trump retain control of the Republican Party after Biden is inaugurated, then regular Republicans must leave the party.  They must leave the Republican Party in the hands of the Trumpublicans and form their own party.

Why must they leave? It is for the sake of integrity. Under Trump and the Trumpublicans, reality has been under constant assault. And what the Trumpublicans consider to be real today depends on what serves the needs of the President. This assault on reality started early during Trump Administration with the resorting to 'alternative facts' by a Trump spokesperson. It has continued throughout his Administration down to what is true about the Covid-19 virus and the election. 

The attack on reality has been aided by cults. By cult, I am referring to any pro-Trump group that has its members believing that the only news sources they can go to are those that support Trump. Certainly Trump has his own cult. But there seems to be a multitude of Trump supporting religiously conservative Christian groups that operate as cults as well. As a result, we have a number of Trumpublicans, both rank-and-file members as well as office holders, who cannot accept any reality that does not favor Trump in some way shape or form. Such people easily and passionately latch onto conspiracy theories and false individual claims about a number of subjects especially the election.

Should Trump retain control over the Republican Party after Biden becomes President, Republicans with integrity must leave their party and form their own political party so that their conservatism can be heard by the public and be represented in government with integrity. I say that not as a fan of political conservatism, but as someone who wants people who hold to political conservatism to be well represented in government.

On the flip side, Biden's nomination to be the Democratic Party's Presidential candidate should tell the progressives of that Party that the Democratic Party establishment is far more interested in the votes provided by progressives than their ideas.

Like the Republican Party, the Democratic Party is controlled by the wealth of business interests, especially those of Wall Street. That reality should have become clear by now since Clinton was President with his repeal of Glass-Steagall and promotion of NAFTA. That should have been clear by now by Obama's refusal to criminally prosecute the Wall Street execs whose fraud significantly contributed to the economic collapse of 2008 and his attempt to fast track the TPP. And that should have been clear by the Democratic Party's treatment of Bernie Sanders's attempts to earn the Party's Presidential nominee.

Progressives in the Democratic Party cannot hope to fight the influence that money has over the Democratic Party. While progressives could easily protest and oppose Trump's appointments of corporate lobbyists and executives to important government positions, they should also be significantly riled by Biden's corporate appointments. After all, wasn't it credibly reported that Biden told Wall Street supporters that 'nothing would change' should he be elected?

Certainly there will be some cosmetic changes in policies with the Biden Presidency. And we will be relieved from Trump's attempts at strongman rule over the nation once Biden is inaugurated. But what won't change is the general direction of the nation under a Biden Presidency. That general direction's destination is that of furthering corporate rule over the nation. With a Biden Presidency, that general direction will undergo a major facelift. The new facade will be more appealing, more attractive to look at. But the direction will not be any different than that of direction pursued by President Trump.

Again, should Trump retain control of the Republican Party, we need splits in both parties. We need exoduses of those who are more purist in their ideologies from our two major political parties. Without those separations from the two major parties, we will can only be assured of worse and worse major party candidates for President.