They believe all alcohol -- beer, wine and
liquor -- should be banned. It's the major long-term objective for the people
behind a newly reorganized political party in New York. They belong to the appropriately named New
York Prohibition Party. Founded in 1869, it went dormant in the 1940s, about a
decade after the end of America's big experiment with national Prohibition. In 2017, a small group of true believers set
out to re-establish the state party. They followed in the footsteps of a
re-emerging national Prohibition Party, the oldest continuously operating third
party in the country. The ultimate goal
"is to establish a lasting prohibition of the manufacture and sale of
alcohol, to abolish the alcohol industry, and to establish a teetotal
culture," party officials said in a set of answers to emailed questions
from NYup.com.
This is an ongoing battle that first
appeared in the 1800’s, there will always be people that believe that alcohol
is the root of all evil and should be banned.
The “Noble Experiment of the 1920’s and 1930’s failed completely. All it did was to put the criminal element
into the imbibing of alcohol. It did
nothing to stem its consumption. Enough
is enough, we have legal controls of the manufacturing, sales and use of
alcohol, we don’t need to add the criminal element to it again. We are finally moving out of that era with Marijuana,
we don’t need to slip back into it with alcoholic beverages.
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