I agree with not having a political party youth section because I personally feel that school going youngsters shouldn't be politicised. When people turn eighteen, are able to vote, work, fight for their country, have families, etc then they should join the main party and become active. Because they are old enough to vote they can go out and canvass and maybe stand for election although I feel no very young person should really do this.
There is something essentially fascist about political youth movements. I'm not saying this lightly as I lived in a nationalist country where the youth were politicised. It didn't do them any good and caused them to miss out on that time in life when every individual just needs space to grow and learn. Maybe this is very Scandinavian of me as we tend to believe that young people need these things and there's no mad hurry to foist certain things on them before they are ready or to indoctrinate them with ideology they may wish to take up or leave or return to over a period of time.
All this going to political youth camps and what not that tends to go with these things gives me the creeps. A while ago young people joined the scouts and guides and church guild groups and various other youth groups rather than become enmeshed in politics. There is often a lot of good sense in traditional models.
Just my opinion. Youth today are too pressurised into various orientations by crafty adults who are looking for recruits they can mould.


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