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yelekam
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30 Jun 2016, 8:34 pm

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/2016-election-rise-prohibition-party



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30 Jun 2016, 9:18 pm

... and we should be concerned because ... ?

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30 Jun 2016, 9:25 pm

Fnord wrote:
... and we should be concerned because ... ?

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Booze is really damn important, bro.

It's pretty much the litmus test and personification of FREEDOM (apart from weapons, I suppose).



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30 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm

Dillogic wrote:
Fnord wrote:
... and we should be concerned because ... ?
Booze is really damn important, bro.
Exactly. A multi-billion dollar a year business, with micro-breweries on every block, micro-distilleries in every town, and the War on Drugs making headway, there is little chance that any "Prohibition Party" would stand a chance of success nowadays.

If some old broad pulled a "Carrie Nation" and started busting up a bar with an axe, she would likely be knocked down, hog tied, and dumped by the curb ... if she wasn't shot first!

Ain't gonna happen!



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30 Jun 2016, 9:40 pm

Apparently the author of the piece conveniently forgot that by the time the Prohibition Party rose to power it had been crafted into a tool of the conservative Christian Evangelicals. Their war against alcohol was an attempt to simultaneously gather power & money - and push their own brand of morality.

For a different take on the roots of the Prohibition Party:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wayne-b-wheeler-the-man-who-turned-off-the-taps-14783512/?all


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