Who knew? I certainly would never have guessed that the Prohibition Party was still around. I thought that it would have died right about the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. Apparently this political party has been around since 1869 and has entered a candidate in every presidential election since then. Touting themselves as American’s third oldest political party, Gene Amondson is running this year. So what exactly (besides prohibition, obviously) does this party’s platform consist of? Well, according to Prohibitionists.org, they are all about promoting “social reforms such as honest and economical government, religious freedom, a sound environment, racial equality, woman’s rights, and clean living.” I’m pretty sure neither the Republicans nor the Democrats would admit to being against any of those things, so that still leaves it kind of mysterious in my mind. Check out this short clip of Amondson asking for your vote, and I’ll wrap it up on the other side with a few final thoughts about the American political party that refuses to die.
Founded in 1869, the party officially split in 2003. One would think with their limited numbers there wouldn’t be enough issues to haggle over, right? Well it turns out that accusations of financial irregularities against Earl Dodge (the nominee of that year) as well as lawsuits threatened by Leroy Pletten (this year’s VP nominee) were the issues that really precipitated the split in one of America’s oldest political parties.
Now in all fairness to the Prohibition Party, there is more to their platform than I stated above. On the website you can find the 2008 Platform. Other issues that are of interest to the party include the Patriot Act, Constitutional Government, The Preamble to the Constitution, and Sovereignty. I’ll leave you with this excerpt from an article entitled “Leavening the Loaf” from the site:
Even though the United States has only 5% of the world’s population, 25% of the world’s eight million prisoners are stuck behind bars in the “Land of the Free.” There are six times as many Americans behind bars as are imprisoned in the 12 countries of the European Union, even though those countries together have 100 million more residents that does the United States. The population of U.S. prisons is larger than the combined populations of the states of Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
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