A call to end party purity in US government | National Catholic Reporter by Robert Christian. Being "pro-life" is problematic because many who take such a position are rather unforthcoming in what they actually want to see done. One can be anti-abortion (meaning they don't believe in abortion as just another form of birth control) while being pro-choice (meaning banning abortion does more harm than good). Convincing the Church of this, like convincing older Catholics that the teaching on mastrubation has changed, is a very different thing.
There are social libertarians and then there are socialist libertarians who are "private sector socialists" - some of whom are willing to use public policy to move people into such systems - specifically by shifting most payroll and income taxes to the employer and then giving the employer deductions for giving voting shares to employees and providing for cooperatively provided services now provided by the government (like education, retiree healthcare, mental health, etc) as well as having the employer provide financial services so that no one has to deal with outside bankers.
There is no party that does this - however such an ideology may be where the large number of independents live - and many Democrats. The reason to begin to form a new party is that the Republicans are largely making themselves irrelevant. As a result, the Democratic coalition will be too big to last - giving a new party the opportunity to claim majority party status.
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