It is happening in houses and hurting families, and also places like saloons, where male political bosses made political decisions out of the reach of women, which is part of why the temperance movement was strongly and mostly led by women.

Today, teenagers across the country drink while their brains are not fully developed, leading to brain damage, as well as all the normal side effects of alcohol (1 in 6 teens binge drinks). Teen alcoholics are more likely to cause social problems, violence, and have suicidal thoughts.

Once Prohibition was passed, congressman Wayne Wheeler drafted the Volstead Act which enforced the amendment and congress passed it despite incumbent President Woodrow Wilson's veto with a 2/3 majority in both houses. It was left in place during the Republican presidencies of the 20's but was repealed once democrats reclaimed the presidency in 1933.

In the modern day, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was signed in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.

Today, we no longer advocate prohibition as we have realized that it is a bad solution to the alcohol problem. Instead we have a national minimum drinking age law, and in school we have health classes where we are taught the negative effects of alcohol in an attempt to discourage young people from drinking.

We have learned regulation, not prohibition, is the key. Banning only makes things worse. Our history is more developed and effects of potential solutions more easily seen.

There are still progressives today although compared to the progressive era there is a much stronger conservative presence. There have been many progressive reforms made however, from Teddy Roosevelt & Wilson, to FDR and Truman's New Deal and Fair Deal, to JFK's New Frontier, to LBJ's Great Society, to the reforms of the GHWB presidency and beyond.