Oddest Fringe Political Movements

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In this thread, we talk about the oddest fringe political movements we have heard about. This thread is for the stuff that makes you go "Why would so many people believe something so insane?"

In my opinion, the weirdest political movement ever is the LaRouche Movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement

Honorable Mentions:

- Anarcho-Capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
- National-Anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-Anarchism
- Libertarian National Socialist Green Party http://greenpolitics.wikia.com/wiki/Libertarian_National_Socialist_Green_Party
- Third Position https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position
- National Bolshevik Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party
- Dark Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
- New Black Panther Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party

In our town we used to get lectures by LaRouchies on our public access cable station. I would get hooked on their lectures, but soon got the impression that they were between the lines crypto Nazis (they are very anti British, and are more pro German than are most Germans).

But from that Wiki article it sounds like that they are not quite Nazis. But they certainly are...out there! Interesting bunch.

Everything from bridging the Bering Strait and colonizing Mars (on one hand), to changing the music scale ( who knew that a tuning fork could be politicized?).

A prize should go to "Dark Enlightenment" for their name alone! Lol!

I always had affection for the "Anti Masonic Party"( America's biggest third party in pre Civil War times). Today it seems hilarious that anyone would be so afraid of the Free Masons that they would start a whole political party around the issue. But actually most of our founding Fathers were Free Masons, and our currency is covered with Masonic symbols. So the Masons were powerful back then.