by Carol Noble

Created on: March 05, 2007   Last Updated: March 19, 2008

Hitler used the youth to perpetuate his ideas, and asked them to report their family members to the state if the young considered there had been an insult to members of the state. The youth did not know any better: they had been taught at a very young age to follow the official party line without being taught other points of view. Do we really want that to happen again?

From my past experience of understanding politics I realise that when I was young I had little comprehension of what politics was really about. Now I am older I can see quite clearly that a lot of it is bullyboy tactics, childish attitudes, incompetence and arrogance. These attributes are often associated with young inexperienced people who know little of life, so from this perspective it would seem that any young person would find it easy to be involved in politics. But most people mature, grow up, realise those attitudes are only appropriate on the ignorant. Certainly, many young people mature beyond this; I only wish politicians would grow up too.

It is only now that I realise most of the politicians started out their "political career" quite young, when they understood little of what was going on but learnt very quickly how they were expected to act and think. Anyone who could see how ignorant, arrogant, and stupid politicians actually were found themselves to be discouraged immediately - too many poiliticians were afraid they would be seen in a poor light compared with these highly enlightened, far wiser, rising stars.

To keep everyone under the impression that politics requires a lot of thought and care, whilst at the same time indoctrinating them into procedures which bring about the opposite, it is necessary to "get young people involved in politics"! Once they have done this, in the early years, it is hard for anyone to step "out of the box" and come up with something truly radical, and beneficial to all, including the young!

Only if the young stay out of politics until they are mature enough to disciminate between good and bad political behaviour will we get truly good people, interested in the way the world works, and how things can be properly improved to benefit all.

The young are still learning how adults work, how to be adults themselves, how to hold down a job, learn that job properly, have relationships and raise families. Politics should be for those who are past these stages, who have life experience behind them, and who have NOT been involved in party politics or union involvement

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