Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Leeja Miller"
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That's quite a story. There's a new party called the American Solidarity Party. It's pro-life, but in many other ways to the left of the Republican Party. Single issue pro-life voters are going to have a choice they did not have before. The ASP looks to many ethical sources, but one of them is Catholic Social Teaching, a pillar of which is the cause of the poor. It also includes addressing the conditions that leave people feeling abortion is their best choice. Until now, the Republican Party and its extreme elements have relied upon these single-issue voters to gain power and advance their agenda, which in my mind comes down to less or no income tax and less or no rules on the particular business of the Republican voter, and subsidies for that business are OK. And they want a powerful military that just protects the US. Otherwise they are "Don't Tread on Me."
The prospect is, that if the ASP understands the pro-life voter correctly, then the Republican extreme will be disempowered because they will lose this once very reliable source of voters. That might set off something bad, and then again it might require the core constituency of the Republican party, wealth, to better police its own. I don't know that ASP candidates will get anywhere other than attracting a sector of voters with their conscience oriented in a few particular ways. Elections being as close as they are, it might make a difference. It might set off a good conversation that opens up paths to reconciliation.
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